On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 09:30 +0200, Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
Jon Phillips wrote:
Heya, one of my top priority projects at CC now is OLPC. I talked with the pres. of software and content, Walter Bender today and I intro'd myself and mentioned Inkscape, and he immediately said, "Oh cool, I use Inkscape all the time. Want to port it to Sugar?"
There are some (to put it gently) performance issues with Inkscape, so knowing OLPC has an underpowered CPU and little RAM, how are you planning to deal with the performance aspect? Provide only a subset of features and a streamlined interface to not expose the unsupported features?
I know OLPC will have available for offline use some content form Wikipedia, so if you make available Inkscape to it (and OLP already has Firefox which can display SVG and a version of Abiword which I don't know how well support SVG), maybe it would be useful at some point to also make available some selected content from the Open Clip Art Library.
Yes, I agree on all points. I met with Walter Bender (president of software/content) for the project, and he is a total Inkscape user. The device uses SVG everywhere for scalability, icons, interface, etc. It had no problem with it and the device seemed pretty fast.
He also showed me some live demos of their browser (which uses xulrunner/mozilla) with a simple javascript+svg editor for their icon. It worked pretty quickly...
Anyway, we discussed how cool it would be to have an inkpaint-like app that runs on the device...soooo...I will keep my ears peeled on this.
If some of you who want to work on this, please connect with me and lets discuss it more. There also might be funds and equipment for this...and in the end, $130 for a $100 laptop is cheap ;) But, you don't need that as the test/dev. environment can be setup easily: http://wiki.laptop.org/
Also...the hardware is totally cool!!!! There is a view source key!!! And, we came up with a new term "hackmesh" for collaborative hackfests for people who participate in local mesh network on hacking/debugging...pretty cool! The main screen is 200dpi and looks pretty hot!
Jon