[etoys-dev] Consolidating releases

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Aug 31 14:20:42 EDT 2009


On 31.08.2009, at 19:09, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:

> At Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:05:21 +0200,
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>
>> I think the Sugar release and Squeakland release are virtually
>> indistinguishable now, right? Off the top of my head the only
>> difference is the swapControlAndAltKeys preference, which is enabled
>> for Sugar but not for Squeakland. But we really should set this to  
>> the
>> platform default anyway:
>>
>> http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-304
>>
>> Other than for that, do we still need two different release images?  
>> Or
>> can we simply share the whole image folder now?
>
>  The different is only preferences and currently the following are
> the difference (written in #chicago method):
>
> 		(sugarNavigator true)
> 		(swapControlAndAltKeys false)
> 		(unlimitedPaintArea true)
> 		(useArtificialSweetenerBar true)
> 		(usePopUpArrows false)
>
> The navigator's buttons may still have to be different to conform the
> Sugar's strange document model.

Can't we enable that on startup?

>  PopUpArrows is not-so-effective workaround for the XO's touch pad.

But since scaling is on we should enable them anyway? Or just under  
Sugar? In any case that could be done at startup as well.

>  Unlimited paint area can be off.

In fact it must be off - that's what causes the Welcome demo to fail.  
Or can we force it for that specific project?

- Bert -




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