Scaled down project Re: OLPC eToys!

karl karl.ramberg at chello.se
Wed Sep 20 17:25:49 UTC 2006


Bert Freudenberg skrev:
> Milan Zimmermann wrote:
>> On 2006 September 19 17:52, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>>> What would be really interesting is if someone could come up with a way
>>> to author projects at their native OLPC resolution (1200x900) while
>>> viewing them at half that size, that is, scaled by 0.5 in a 600x450
>>> window. This is because the actual resolution of the display is 200 
>>> dpi,
>>> whereas a normal monitor has 100 dpi.
>>
>> Hmm. I never really tried a resolution outside of the "standard" 
>> (1280x960 etc), but if setting X to non-standard resolution to 
>> 1200x900 / 600x450 works .. if I build a project on the higher 
>> resolution and then restart X on  lower, and run the project - is 
>> that what you have in mind?
>
> No, I was actually looking for something to simulate the user 
> experience of the OLPC display on a regular display. I'd like to have 
> a "minification glass" I put on top of the actual 1200x900 Squeak 
> project to make its physical size on the monitor be 600x450 pixels. 
> For example, I think there are VNC clients that can scale down a 
> remote display, that might be one idea to achieve what I want.
If you click on a project and hold the button down you get a to a menu 
that let let you enter
a project active. This is a scaled down version of the project, maybe 
this can help you.
Karl
>
>>> Of course we also need cool example projects to show off all the stuff
>>> that is accessible for etoys (remember the "Worlds of Squeak" projects
>>> that were in Squeak releases prior to 3.8?).
>>
>> Heh, I use a stretched captured of that "Squeak Rulez" window as my 
>> laptop background image when working in the office on my Java 
>> contract :)) - generated a few questions, it is a really nice 
>> background. That aside, would porting the Worlds of Squeak be of 
>> interest?
>
> Maybe - what we want to show is the things that set etoys apart from 
> all the other apps that are on the laptop.
>
>>>>> Also, is there a VM preference for testing (3.9 on Linux?)
>>> We use the very latest Linux VM, which is 3.9-8 (only available from 
>>> SVN
>>> for now). I did set up a build system, follow the Sugar instructions at
>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys
>>>
>>>>   Ideally, the VM should be the one built from SVN repository
>>>> http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/sugar/, but 3.9 line of Linux VM is pretty
>>>> much identical so far.
>>> In fact, it is identical, because it is just pulling the latest from 
>>> SVN
>>>   on checkout.
>>
>> I plan to test the image for sure over the weekend, whether I manage 
>> to build the VM is in question :(, as I run KDE and suspect some 
>> gnome libraries dependencies fight etc, but will try!
>
> You don't need to use that VM, or even Linux.
>
> - Bert -
>
>




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