On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> On 3 June 2011 22:01, Gonzalo Odiard <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Evince (the library used to read PDF) has changed the interface too, >> then >> > does not have sense support the old toolbar. >> >> I don't think I understand - how do the toolbars in Evince affect the >> Read activity? Doesn't Read just use the Evince libraries and not the >> Evince GUI? >> >> > No. I means if we supported the old toolbar, Read activity will not work > anyway > because the Evince library has changed. > > >> > May be in a few months you can update to 11.2 and use a lot of new >> features, >> >> Updating thousands of XOs scattered across our 7.6m km^2 continent is >> not a task to be taken lightly. We cannot upgrade them all without >> some serious planning, and we aren't going to do so just for an >> activity. No doubt, other deployments face similar challenges. >> >> > Yes, I understand it. > In most cases, I try to provide backward compatibility. In this case, we > have new functionality > for example text to speech, enabled by packages included in the os. > Then supporting old/new toolbar, new/old evince and wth/without text to > speech > does the code and the testing a nightmare. > > > >> Are there any technical limitations in making this activity run on the >> current OLPC OS? >> >> > No. If you want sent patches to add compatibility, I can review them. > If there are technical problems related to sugar one can work on back portability, simon and sasha and others, have done a great work on this sense. There are some docs for example: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Compatibility_Tips When it comes to activities that use pieces of software that are downstream to sugar the costs of back-portability are very high, sometimes upstream developers don't care about it, so sugar developers must take into count this burden also. > > Gonzalo > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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