On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 00:26 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 22:44 +0000, Jon Phillips wrote: > > Ooops...prematurely sent the last one... > > > > Anyway, want to get Inkscape ported over to Sugar/OLPC. I'm curious if > > OLPC/Sugar will support gtkmm, libsigc++, pango, and cairo. Inkscape is > > refactoring and porting to C++/GTKMM right now and are necessary. So, > > are these libraries included and/or could they be considered for > > inclusion on the device? > > Pango and cairo are and will be included without any doubt. gtkmm and > libsigc++ could be shipped with the bundle (I assume they doesn't take a > lot of disk space?). > > > Also, are there general porting pages on the wiki to point out? > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar > > and > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Activity_Tutorial > > > > Also, are there general procedures or methods for Inkscape to be > > considered for inclusion on the OLPC above and beyond the Sugar HIG. > > > > I don't think the criteria for inclusion are clearly defined yet. > > We will be including a drawing activity, but the user experience for it > has yet to be thought out in the detail. I *think* so far we have been > thinking more along the lines of a sketching activity then about a full > featured design tool. I don't know enough about Inkscape architecture to > try and guess if it could be a good base for the default drawing > activity.
Yes, it should be noted that Inkscape has jabber-based-support for digital whiteboarding, called inkboard, for collaborative creation. This could be a good way to support sketching together... > > With Inkscape, we are looking to lib'ify it more so we can have some > > like inkcore libraries, upon which we or someone else could make > > something like inkpaint for kids. > > > > That's very good. To really integrate Inkscape, an ad hoc UI (toolbar > and stuff) will be required. Also we would have to develop special > features on the top of it (collaboration on the mesh for example). Yes, hopefully inkboard will help solve this... > > Does this interest anyone? Lets get the big guns on this one :) > > Definitely. We can start a conversation with the design team and try to > figure out if Inkscape can be a good base for our drawing activity, if > you are interested. > > Marco Sure, lets do it! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
