[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] tux4kids port

[David Bruce]

Hi Zubair,

On 3/10/09, Zubair Assad <i.am.zubu at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi david
>
> i would like to port tux4kids to sugar.

That's great - I have a XO-1 and spent a significant amount of time
last fall getting tuxtype and tuxmath to work reasonably well on it.
I never did anything about making sugar bundles for them, however.  I
just put all the libs and dev tools onto the XO itself and built the
programs with "./configure; make; sudo make install".

Tuxpaint already has a completed sugar activity, IIRC.

The XO is a Fedora platform (Fedora 9?).  One obstacle I had in
working on tuxtype/tuxmath for the XO was that we didn't have rpm
packages of the programs.  We have recently started using the opensuse
build service and now can build rpms for multiple distros (including
Fedora 9 and 10) almost automatically.  The packages can be located
via:

http://software.opensuse.org/search

Last time I ran tuxtype and tuxmath on the XO, there were still a
couple of remaining issues.  The menus display in a really small font
on the small screen, and the scaling of the background images
introduces a several-second delay between waves.  I think these can be
fixed pretty readily now.

> I could also append extra features such as networking since i have
> been working on telepathy.

Don't know much about that, but I'd be happy to learn more.

Thanks for your interest,

David Bruce