On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Khiraly wrote:
If I read correctly, the monitor has dual mode, so 1200x900 B&W and 800x480 (?) color mode.
Would be great to adjust the Inkscape user interface so it can work on small screens and portable devices generally. (At the moment the About dialog seems to be the only excessively large dialog.)
So if I understand correctly, the problem, is to create a dumped inkscape version, with less capability, no extension, and so on.
They are more likely to want to use the extensions mechanism to allow users to experiment and learn, than leave them out altogether.
If they decide include a Turtle graphics program hopefuly it would include SVG export and allow users to further embellish their drawings in Inkscape.
Btw, is there anybody, who have seriously tried to take note (with a laptop) in a university class? Especially difficult to write down the equation, diagrams and so on. But in a collaborative fashion it would be really easy (2-3 person, one note the text, one write the diagram, etc. So the slower computer aided note will accelerated by 2-3person. In this way it would be usable).
I've heard of people doing exactly the kind of collaborative note taking you describe using Gobby and efforts are underway to produce a collaborative version of Abiword. http://gobby.0x539.de/
So I think inkscape with the inkboard capability on the horizont has a really good chance to take part in the olpc laptop movement.
So long as inkscape met their performance requirements I'd be surprised if they didn't want to include it.
What the others think?
No harm in asking them, the mailing list are quite friendly and I expect they will give you all kinds of suggestions about the educational aspects they might want to bring out in a drawing program.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/