[etoys-dev] sixteen items for Squeaklamd 2012

[karl ramberg]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

>
> On 24.01.2012, at 21:17, Scott Wallace wrote:
>
> > Here are the sixteen items currently on the Squeakland Educators'
> Group's wish-list of changes to try to get into the "Squeakland 2012"
> release.  This is from an early version of a working document, and does not
> necessarily represent consensus or priority, but it provides a useful point
> of departure as we try to kickstart the process of defining and building
> the release.
> >
> > Individual items will be addressed in separate emails shortly.
> >
> > Most of the major items here relate to work (heroically) done by Ricardo
> Moran in 2010 and 2011, whose results were typically circulated in projects
> attached to emails sent to this list.  It would be very useful to hear
> about all experiences (in as much detail as possible) that anyone has had
> with any of these projects.  Items 1-5 and 7 are all in this category.
> >
> > --------
> >
> > 1. sectors (graphics) kh/ok add help
>
>
> > 2. calendar? (tools) add help  (ask developers about cost of adding
> projects)
> >
> > 3. graphing tool
> >
> > 4. number line
> >
> > 5. spreadsheet - maybe (in object catalogue?) - Skeleton -
>

This is a big package and need review.

> >
> > 6. input/output
> >
> > 7. Single Step Debugger
> >
> > 8. When saving file display only: Name, Notes and Tags - Remove Subject,
> Target Age, and Region  - Matches Scratch
> > (can fold subject entries into tags for existing and older versions)
> >
> > 9. Add Koji Yokokawa's ScratchConnect (game controls and game displays)
> > This will allow kids to create “game controllers” using Etoys Projects
> on one set of computers to control a “game display” (another Etoys or
> Scratch Project) on another computer.
> >
> > 10. re-arrange the objects in supplies
> > remove Press me (back in object catalog), polygon in supplies instead
> (to have a non-symmetric object to let kids see heading when moving)
> >
> > 11. On Add Variable: Show options for value type - to make it easier to
> discover different types besides number (Ex: player, color, etc).
>

This is good.


> >
> > 12. When deleting a project icon, change "delete the icon and delete the
> project" to "delete the icon and remove the project" delete indicates it
> may delete it from disk. And change wording from "Really delete the project
> <name> and all its contents? <yes/no>" to "Realy delete the icon and remove
> the project from Etoys (file will still be saved on disk) <yes/no>"
> >
> > 13. Fix Connector Labels so they display properly in “middle” of
> connector.
> >  a. Fix: connector labels so that when added they move to the "middle"
> of the connector, not "openAtMousePosition"
> >  b. Fix: connector labels so that repositioning does not place back to
> position of "openAtMousePosition" relative to move.
> >
> > 14. An "ask" tile to get user input.
> >
> > 15. A Rosetta Stone like (visual display of speech, graph) to help kids
> learn language and pronunciation).
> >
> > 16. Add perimeter, etc. tiles to polygon tool.
> >
> > --------
> >
> >  -- Scott
>
>
> Great list! To help keeping track I renamed the versions in the tracker:
>
> I agree.


>
> http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ?selectedTab=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project%3Aversions-panel
>
> 4.1.2 is now "etoys 2012" and the next one is "future release". All issues
> we want to solve now should be changed to "etoys 2012", the rest should
> remain in or be moved to "future release". If developers don't get around
> to finish an issue scheduled for "etoys 2012" then we'll just move it to a
> new version upon release.
>
> As soon as we decided on a version name for this release we can rename it
> in the tracker (reasonable choices would be 4.2 or 5.0 I think).
>
> Sounds good?
>
> - Bert -
>
>
Sounds good to me. I think Etoys 5.0 would be good. Much has changed since
last release.

Karl

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