Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Roadmap!

[Caroline F. <car...@go...>]

On Sun, 2007-08-19 at 23:52 +0200, Pere Pujal i Carabantes wrote:

> Pre or post 1.0    Enhance stamps presentation in order to show very
> similar stamps in a more compact way.
> 
> Say we have four stamps for a letter in alphabets (filled-oulined
> Caps-lower) or six apples or eight european coins etc. Consider to popup
> a chooser for those who are closer enouth but can't go on a separate
> holder or instead implement a solution like stickers do.
> 
> Copy/pasted from http://users.powernet.co.uk/kienzle/stickers/:
> 
> "The stickers across the bottom come in related sets. If you click on an
> unselected sticker, it will become the selected sticker and you can then
> paste it into your scene. If you then click on the selected sticker, it
> will change to the next sticker in the set."

I would like to handle the alphabet stamps as part of a localised
content pack. We should install a slightly different set of stamps as a
default depending on locale. If your system is set up as es-ES you get
the spanish alphabet by default and stamps of Spanish things. For
bilingual areas you have the choice of adding extra locales.

For example a London primary school would get en_GB by default but could
install extra packs giving Caribbean or Bengali content (or whatever
cultural groups are common in their students).

The default would still be mixed and international in scope but without
needing to download all the extras for all users.

For example - we have a stamp of a US mailbox, we also have a stamp of a
UK postbox. Do we need a stamp of every local equivalent? Yes! - but but
it would quickly become too much in file size and content terms. (Who
would want to plough through 100 stamps of post boxes?)

Localisation isn't just about translation :)

Caroline