On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Tomeu Vizoso<to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 17:20, Bobby Powers<bobbypow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Jonas Smedegaard<d...@jones.dk> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: RIPEMD160 >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:21:48AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>>>On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:56, Simon Schampijer<si...@schampijer.de> wrote: >>>>> On 06/12/2009 08:06 AM, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> http://ubuntutesting.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/mago-a-desktop-testing-initiative/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Once we switch unnecessary usage of hippo and add some hooks to it, >>>>>> we'll be able to use the same infrastructure. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Tomeu >>>>> >>>>> Nice! You mean get rid of hippo completely? Or just replace the >>>>> unnecessary usage of hippo and add hooks to hippo for the other parts >>>>> to be able to use Mago? >>>> >>>>Well, if we could replace hippo completely with something maintained >>>>by someone else, would be great. But just reducing its usage and >>>>implementing some AT-SPI hooks might be enough for now. >>>> >>>>Of course, that would help as well with accessibility. >>> >>> I have absolutely no understanding of what hippo does, except from its >>> package description in Debian, but is this perhaps a worthy alternative: >>> http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas >>> >>> It has Python binding. :-) >>> >>> Here's a sceptical blog entry about it: >>> http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2007/10/11/goocanvas-experiences/ >> >> I used goocanvas (through the python bindings) in my activity, and >> would recommend against anyone else doing the same. It was both >> quirky and buggy, and I never got it working quite as I wanted. I've >> been converting my activity to Gaphas, which is much nicer to use and >> gives more bang for the buck. > > I have also been looking at Gaphas for a mind map activity and was > quite impressed about it, though it would be limited to > diagramming-like activities. > > http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/mindmap > > Which is that activity you are porting to Gaphas?
its model, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Model , which is a diagramming-like activity. Gaphas seems flexible enough to be generalized, but I'm not sure how much work it would be. bobby >> The only 'problem' is that it isn't >> packaged for Fedora, and the Debian package is out of date. Its >> available from the cheeseshop and as source, so its not hard to bundle >> it with your activity. >> http://gaphor.devjavu.com/wiki/Subprojects/Gaphas >> http://dev.laptop.org/git/users/bobbyp/gaphas > > Yeah, for activity authors it may be more convenient for now to > duplicate the python sources inside their bundles. Though when Gaphas > gets more mature, it will be nice to have packages. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> Bobby >> >>> >>> >>> - Jonas >>> >>> - -- >>> * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt >>> * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ >>> >>> [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >>> >>> iEYEAREDAAYFAkoybeQACgkQn7DbMsAkQLiK6QCfX705yNF0xpTiyS5IseK3qOED >>> uGwAn3XYw3sfYLqIUYRpYbt58th+pZqV >>> =b5xG >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel