2008/2/19, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.de:
On Feb 19, 2008, at 12:27 , Karl wrote:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008, at 5:12 , Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
Also, could you comment how does 2.3 and 3.0 relate to the non- OLPC version
announced in earlier post "A new experimental version of OLPC image for non-XO environments".
The new non-OLPC version (Squeakland-Etoys) will based on Etoys 3.0, but besides the version number, Etoys 3.0 will accumulate incremental changes from Etoys 2.3, so, there aren't too big differences.
3.0 really is only an incremental step over 2.3, it could as well have been named 2.4. The reason to go with 3.0 was simply because we wanted a new sources file (EtoysV3.sources). We do not expect to introduce major incompatibilities or even features in this line of development. It has to go stable now. Contributions from the community are welcome, but the core team will not add features. There certainly will be improvements, one biggie is better international text rendering, another restoration of media playback, but from a user's point of view Etoys can be considered pretty much feature- complete.
I know feature creep is easy but here are a few items I have thought would be great:
-Some sort of scripting access to Journal files so one can build media players (slideshows, music player etc) without internalizing the files.
That would be cool. Can you imagine how it should look like? We have not had that functionality in Etoys before (like, making a slideshow from a directory of files).
-Ogg Theora video seems to be the format of the Recording Activity so we should support that.
We hope to have a gstreamer plugin, which also would support Theora.
Why not a compiled plugin for Ogg/Theora so it is portable to other plateform as well for Mac and Windows. Otherwise the use of Ogg/Theora will be very limited as non portable. Please considerer it :)
In our pedagogical center, I have a planed presentation of Etoys to teacher on May, on Mac OSX. I know teacher will ask me about video...
Hilaire