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.
-Ogg Theora video seems to be the format of the Recording Activity so we should support that.
-Diego's Image Processing (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2411) and since there is no photo enhancement / adjusting activity I know of it is quite useful.
-Export of pictures to Journal
-Enhance the sound and music tools in the image so they look and feel and behave better.
-Skeleton (http://languagegame.org:8888/ggame/11) and further enhance the spread sheet and animation
Faster project loading could make diverse activities possible by quick loading of features.
Did I forget anything ? :-)
Karl