Re: Mockups and stuff

On 3/13/06, Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 17:46 +0100, Robert Staudinger wrote:

[...]

> Hi Rob,
> This is very interesting indeed and prolly not too hard to
> implement. Do we have some feedback from the OLPC on what sort of
> interface they want? My guess is that a first approximation might be the
> Nokia N770 builds but even they assume a 800x600 resolution display.

It seems they are currently busy with low level stuff. Information is
a bit hard to gather, it seems to be spreaded across several wikis
[1][2][3]. There is however also a mailing list i've been told about
in irc.freenode.net#olpc [4].
From the wiki pages i've read they seem to prefer an exciting, playful
user interface over raw features. When i find the time i'll revisit a
few of the bigger dialogs and create smaller alternatives -- this
would profit embedded users anyways.

> Anyway, this is where we need to engage the OLPC guys to get some clue
> as to what they want from us. eg We've put a lot of work into the
> pangofied graphics class, do they want that for the first OLPC release?
> Can they live with a cleaned up to 2.4.x release?

I have no idea about the timeline but it wouldn't seem a tall order if
they made some effort keeping their upstream projects informed when
things are heating up.

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/Main_Page
[2] http://pedia.media.mit.edu/wiki/Getting_involved_in_OLPC
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OLPC
[4] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software

Best,
Rob
Received on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:19:07 +0100