Hello,
As you may know, the "eToys team" at Viewpoints Research is working on a version of Squeak tailored to suit the OLPC. (Please take a look at http://wiki.laptop.org/ and their wiki site from there.)
Many of us have gathered together at the OLPC office in Cambridge, MA, for two weeks of intensive, quality hacking time. The plan is to finalize the image by the middle of October.
We are making many UI changes and optimizations suitable for the relatively modest resource on the laptop. The effort includes performance tweaks, simplification of menus, reduction and reorganization of objects in the parts bins, and tweaks to both Viewers and Scriptors, including font, color, and size choices.
At the same time, we are trying to minimize the changes so that we don't introduce new bugs, and in order to remain consistent with existing documentation.
If you are interested in what is going on, please grab the images at:
http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/OLPCPlugin.zip (initial version without updates) http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/OLPCPlugin-960.zip (updated on Sep. 18th) http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/OLPCPlugin-latest.zip (identical to the latest in this folder)
or for developers:
http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/OLPCSqueak.zip (initial version without updates) http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/OLPCSqueak-960.zip (updated on Sep. 18th) http://tinlizzie.org/olpc/OLPCSqueak-latest.zip (identical to the latest in this folder)
Obviously, there are a lot of changes going into this version, so please update the image often (I mean, really often.)
Any comments, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome. We are setting up a mailing list for discussion on OLPC eToys. Also, there is a wiki page at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Etoys
Feel free to edit it for discussion on this.
Thank you!
-- Yoshiki