Re: [IAEP] some very cool features for a capacitive touchscreen

2013-10-25 Thread Manuel Quiñones
2013/10/24 Sameer Verma > > I saw some very cool features in a presentation today at the Internet > Archive. The presentation was by Eitenne Mineur, as part o the "Books > in Browsers 13" event. > > They are using paper and other simple objects that have kind of > conductive patterns to create sto

Re: [IAEP] Translation Manual (in Spanish)

2013-10-25 Thread Chris Leonard
Due to the unfortunate ability of forum-spamming robots to create and activate accounts on Pootle, it was necessary to turn off self-registration to protect our precious translations. Our current process is to send an e-mail to c...@sugarlabs.org with a preferred username and an account will be cr

[IAEP] Google Code-in (GCI) update

2013-10-25 Thread Walter Bender
We have a good collection of initial tasks [1] for our GCI application. But we still need more mentors. If you are interested in being a mentor, please add your name to the wiki [2]. Tenemos una buena colección de tareas [1] iniciales para nuestra aplicación GCI. Pero todavía necesitamos más mento

Re: [IAEP] some very cool features for a capacitive touchscreen

2013-10-25 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
The last time I checked, the width was as pressure in evdev, but was not available in the gtk event. Another option is prepare circles of may be 5 mm and paste them behind the figures, in different positions. A program can detect that circles as touches, and recognize the figure using the relative

Re: [IAEP] some very cool features for a capacitive touchscreen

2013-10-25 Thread James Cameron
Sorry, did I say 6mm wide? I was inaccurate. The objects should be 8mm wide. It might well work with less, but I'm reading from the design specifications which describe use of stylus, so it would be better to use 8mm width. Or do a whole lot of testing to be sure. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-