[sugar] Announce: Screencast activity.

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, I started work on a Screencast activity tonight. It's a frontend to recordMyDesktop, which is the program Scott used for his screencasts. Having a program on the XO that's capable of preparing shareable tutorials could help out a lot with support, by allowing walkthroughs to be prepared by

Re: [sugar] Announce: Screencast activity.

2008-10-17 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I started work on a Screencast activity tonight. It's a frontend to recordMyDesktop, which is the program Scott used for his screencasts. Having a program on the XO that's capable of preparing shareable tutorials could

Re: [sugar] Announce: Screencast activity.

2008-10-17 Thread Erik Blankinship
We wrote a screencasting library a while back. It might be useful to whoever shepherds this type of library to compare implementations. Here is what the sample activity does with the library: - Click to start recording a screencast. - Type something witty that you want recorded. - Click

Re: [sugar] Announce: Screencast activity.

2008-10-17 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I started work on a Screencast activity tonight. It's a frontend to recordMyDesktop, which is the program Scott used for his screencasts. Having a program on the XO that's capable of preparing shareable tutorials could

Re: [sugar] Announce: Screencast activity.

2008-10-17 Thread Gary C Martin
On 17 Oct 2008, at 14:01, Eben Eliason wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * We should avoid having the activity itself be present in the videos; perhaps by minimizing it immediately before starting recording, and then setting up a globally-bound

Re: [sugar] Announce: Screencast activity.

2008-10-17 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:08 AM, Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Recordmydesktop is using /tmp as an intermediate location, which means that a long screencast runs the XO into OOM (or worse). export TMPDIR=$HOME/instance in your wrapper should help a lot here. * It reuses the icon