[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] non free sounds & better backgrounds

[Caroline Ford]

The click won't play on a default Ubuntu and Debian install because of  
the way it is packaged. I'd love to replace everything in that non- 
free package tbh.

However I couldn't work out where in tuxtype it was actually played.  
The click sound I found was a recording of a button click. I accept  
that it may not sound like the sort of click we want though. You want  
a deeper clunkier noise?

I'll find some higher res backgrounds for tuxtype - do we want to keep  
the same nature / water theme?

Caroline

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On 8 Sep 2009, at 04:12, David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Caroline,
>
> On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Caroline
> Ford<caroline.ford.work at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 5 sounds are non-free in tuxtype as they are under a non-commercial  
>> license.
>> They are click.wav and kmus1 to kmus4. I can't see where click.wav  
>> gets
>> played in tuxtype but I've found it in tuxmath, where it hasn't  
>> been flagged
>> up as non-free!
>
> I have to admit I'm not very worried about the license status of  a
> 0.1 sec click sound, although I don't mind replacing it with an
> unequivocally free one.  I have to admit we don't really know where
> some of these little sounds ultimately came from - the only info on
> the 5 "non-free" ones is that they were either public domain or free
> for non-commercial use.  The music files are identifiable enough that
> we should definitely replace them at some point in case some one
> objects.  I don't think kmus1-4 are very good anyway.
>
> The attached replacement "click" sounds to me like a bass drum, so we
> might want to keep looking.
>
> Tuxmath's music files are believed to be public domain, but we don't
> have any sort of formal release from their authors.  They were all
> posted on public web sites years ago as part of the old Atari "demo
> scene", and the authors are known only from online handle names
> obtained by pulling the strings out of the binary sound files.  By now
> I feel like tuxmath wouldn't be the same if we changed the music
> files, so I would strongly prefer we keep them.
>
> As for better backgrounds, tuxtype has scaling code in place, just
> like tuxmath.  We just need to get around to sticking higher
> resolution jpegs in there to take advantage of it.  The background
> files for tuxmath are 1280x1024, which I think is plenty for our
> purposes.  They still look quite good if scaled up for larger
> monitors.  I tried even bigger images at first, but the scaling times
> are proportional to the number of pixels, and are very noticeable on
> slower machines.
>
> Best,
>
> David