On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Chris Leonard <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> We talked about it on the IRC chat, however there is a lot of >>> missconceptions like the crank meme, and now andorid. >>> >>> Why would we want a >13yr old kid in 3rd world to go to the android >>> store to buy apps, get a google account and use G+. >>> >>> Just doesnt seem right. >> >> >> Please consider the very pragmatic argument that one *really* good >> reason to have Android on the demo of the XO-3 tablet at an event as >> well publicized as CES is that neither Sugar or Gnome have yet >> implemented all that neat touch-interface, tablet stuff like virtual >> keyboards, etc. whereas all of this has been present in Android for >> some time. > > I agree with your "pragmatic argument", but... I am almost certain > that what is being demoed on the XO-3.0 at CES is in fact Sugar > running on Fedora. And it works pretty well. (OLPC did some tweaking > for the demo.) That doesn't mean there isn't lots more work to be done > (one of the reasons (as you note below) that we are pushing hard on > GTK-3, since the GNOME community is also working in this problem > space). There is a virtual keyboard for Sugar (but not in the build > being demoed at CES) and not integrated to the point it needs be... > but I did, for example, make a modification to Turtle Art for CES so > that number blocks can be changes w/o a keyboard.
That is really nice to hear. I had a feeling that the touchscreen XO-1.75 prototypes weren't just gathering dust, but I hadn't seen signs of the patches to support touchscreen land (or maybe I missed them). So we are farther along that I had imagined, that is great news. I can imagine the Sugar 097 > 0.98 dev cycle will see some priority feature additions to flesh out support for tablets (the same way that 0.95 > 0.96 has been GTK-focused). That is as it should be, OLPC is obviously a very important "channel partner' for the distribution of Sugar. >> >> Demo'ing Sugar on the tablet at this point would probably require >> plugging in a keyboard and a mouse, which would be a little >> embarrassing in front of all of the press corps. > > Nope. Just need to avoid a few widgets and activities that require typing. Cool, we don't want it to look like a Raspberry Pi after all, real cheap "computer", but you need to add monitor, keyboard and mouse to use it. cjl _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
