Re: [tuxdroid-user] Wiki update

[David B. <da...@ja...>]

I continued updating the wiki and reorganized it a bit.

I'm starting working on the firmware and I wanted to share the development  
with you so I added a firmware page where I'll try to put all information  
I have. Right now there's only the main topics I'm going to get into, with  
empty pages but that's a start ;-)

- Standalone behavior - description of the standalone behavior that should  
be integrated into Tux.
- Remote mode - control your tux with the remote only, no computer here.
- Light sensor - schema, measurement and linearization of the light  
measurement.
- Tux ID - adding an identification code in tux firmware.
- Sleep mode - adding a sleep mode in tux to increase battery life.

I'll keep you updated when I'll really start dealing with that.

On the other hand, we got a nice release of tuxsetup last week and it  
seems to be quite stable and good. Thanks to Philippe and Damien for their  
last commits, and all the others that reported bug, feedback and  
suggestions at different places. Now I think we should really try to get  
something that uses it. And the marketing team needs something badly so  
they decided to get Rémi working on Tux Widgets from this week on. Widgets  
are fun, it's a hot word,  it's great for marketing but is it somehow  
useful for us? Well, I got a meeting with Rémi yesterday and I learned  
about that. Actually it's pretty close to our discussion a while ago about  
a manager application with a plugin framework  
(http://wiki.tuxisalive.com/index.php/New_software_architecture), just  
%s/plugin/widget/g :-)

So at the end that's a pretty good thing because it will be easy to make a  
widget out of a small script and the widget manager will handle priorities  
and conflicts. I added all I know on this topic on the wiki, there's also  
a list of all the widgets that are going to be developed first, have a  
look by yourself at http://wiki.tuxisalive.com/index.php/Tux's_Widgets.  
All comments are welcome, I'll try to be the relay between the ML/wiki/IRC  
and Rémi. It's only a description as I don't have the code and don't know  
exactly what Rémi is going to change along the way.

Cheers,
david

ps. I need to work on the hardware but right now I rather feel like  
getting my NSLU2 out of the box and installing gentoo on it :-)