On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 12:09 -0500, Patrick Ethier wrote: > Hi All, > > > > I received my G1G1 unit about a month ago and have had tremendous fun > fiddling around with it. My 3 year old daughter loves playing with the > paint application (it’s easier than cleaning up the washable marker > all over the floor/table/wall/etc…. J) > > > > I spent a considerable amount of time getting Xephyr to work as an > activity and have written a small activity that gets a window manager > working within an activity window (and yes, the arrow keys work on > this one!). > > > > I’d like to know where I go about contributing this code? I’ve read > around on the wiki but all the instructions seem piecemeal. I’ve > created a wiki username and was about to add a project page at > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/classic_mode but I was wondering if there’s > an established standard to submitting the code to a versioning system > (SVN? CVS?) and creating a project page. > > > > I’ve also recently come across some other attempts to make a similar > application but they all had glitches. I wasn’t able to get back to > the authors to tell them what went wrong and was somewhat disappointed > that there was no other similar projects easily referenced on the > wiki.laptop.org page. > > > > I’m referencing specifically work done by Dan Williams from Redhat and > another person named Owen who made an activity called “Classic Mode” > available at http://ywwg.com/wiki/index.php/OLPC_Work. I was hoping to > name the project page on the laptop.org wiki in order to give proper > credit to these guys. My application is very similar except that it > uses the activity toolbar, embeds Xephyr inside the viewable > application canvas and the function keys work. It really does look > like it’s a Sugar application at this point. > > > > I’d like to get a page where we can “officialize” the sugar/Xephyr > application and start gathering community feedback. > > > > I’m looking at going beyond the “embed a window manager” into the > Sugar interface to getting an activity framework that will let > traditional X11 apps work inside an activity window without calling a > window manager(sort of like creating a launcher item inside of the > Gnome desktop). > > > > Anyhow, any guidance/suggestions are welcome.
Hi Pat, some suggestions follow: Join the sugar mailing list and probably devel too: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Communication_channels#Public_lists If you fancy IRC, join #sugar: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Communication_channels#irc.freenode.net_channels If you want your activity code to be hosted by OLPC, follow this process: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Project_hosting Create a wiki page for your activity following this template: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_Template Example: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Read I'm looking forward to your activity. Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
