My Progess so far

2016-05-20

By Yash Agarwal (GSoC Student)

As Thomas Edison once said:

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Well, I haven’t tried it 10,000 times, but have definitely found a lot of ways that things didn’t work as I expected, during this community bonding phase.

I have read through the following links relevant to this GSoC - and more! As this not an exhaustive list, because I changed my machine recently… As a history dump it contains some less-relevant and not-project-specific links that I found relevant in some way:

• https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/
• https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• http://www.robodocs.info/roboFabDocs/source/index.html
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29866592/draw-a-plot-of-glyphs-in-matplotlib
• http://www.drawbot.com/
• https://github.com/mlagerberg/FindThatFont-
• http://lib.ufojs.org/
• http://unifiedfontobject.org/versions/ufo3/index.html
• https://blog.codinghorror.com/learn-to-read-the-source-luke/
• http://www.glyphrstudio.com/online/
• https://github.com/mattlag/Glyphr-Studio
• http://ts-defcon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
• https://github.com/adrientetar/defconQt
• https://trufont.github.io/
• http://victorlin.me/posts/2013/09/19/fall-in-love-with-continuous-testing-and-integration-travis-ci
• https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Sample_code/Ruler
• http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/hello-world
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Developers/FAQ
• http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Activity_Tutorial
• http://en.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/
• https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Almanac
• http://www.tortall.net/mu/wiki/CairoTutorial
• https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Creating_a_New_Activity
• https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Modifing_an_Activity
• http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4050

As you may have noticed that there is debate going on the #sugar-meeting chanel on whether to use JS/HTML or Python/GTK to develop this activity. Also a 3rd way is to use Python Backend with Web UI suggested, by Dave.

The following is a try of the JS/HTML version of the app I started going through, with ufoJS where I tried implementing the sample glif-renderer in hopes that I can hack it and make it display a Character Map. I faced some issues with require.js which were later solved with Lasse Fister’s help. The Character Map is still to be checked into Github.

Then I tried making a Python/GTK stand-alone verision of the same character map, and ran into issues in drawing the glyphs with defcon. I emailed Adrién Tetar regarding it, but I’m yet to receive a reply. This is what I have made so far: Python/GTK Mock

Here is a screenshot for it:

In the last IRC meeting we discussed the platform issue, and figured out the right way to move forward is with Sugar Desktop.