[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] [Tuxmath-devel] GSOC Skills demonstration patches

[David Bruce]

Hi Jeremy,

2009/3/26 Jérémy Laumon <attila_moi at hotmail.com>:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Like suggested in the GSoC Tux4kids page, I made two little patches (one for
> tuxmath and one for tuxtype) adjusting the menu font and button sizes to the
> current window size. The little animated sprites are also vertically
> centered.

Great!

> Making these patch made me realize that even if tuxmath and tuxtype menus
> have the same look, the code structure is totally different.
> Do you think it could be useful to reorganize the menus code in order to
> harmonize the two softwares ?

Yes - the menu code for tuxmath was originally taken from tuxtype but
has been quite extensively reworked.  One of my ideas has been to get
the tuxmath menu code to be completely generic and then use it for
tuxtype as well.

> I've planned to propose adding SVG in tuxpaint UI in my application but I
> could work on tuxtype and tuxmath menus instead, if project leaders are
> interested. This is in addition of adding SVG support for game elements.

Sounds promising!

David Bruce