Re: Tux Paint

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:24:32PM -0700, nbs wrote:
> Hello all!  It's about time I signed up for this list. :)
> 
> This is Bill Kendrick.

Bill, good to hear from you, glad you are still in the community.  By
any chance will you be at Linux World San Francisco?  I will be
presenting on Linux in Education, it will be session C51.

> I've written quite a few games for Linux, a number
> of which have found their way into the Debian Jr. project.
> (Circus Linux!, Bug Squish, Defendguin, Mad Bomber, and so forth)
> 
> I'm also lead programmer of "Tux, of Math Command", a Tux4Kids project.

Well, I have screen shots of Tux of Math Command in my presentation for
Linux World -:)
 
> Anyway, I wanted to announce that I've begun work on a new for-kids
> program.  A friend of mine recently mentioned that he installed Debian Jr.
> for his kids, and explained that many programs that get put in "Jr."
> are really just regular Linux programs that kids might want to use.
> 
> One example he gave was The Gimp.  Gimp is one of my absolute favorite
> programs (I've given talks on it at least three times, and will again
> at a Web development users group this July).

> But... I can't imagine some 3- or 4-year-old kid trying to figure it out
> without getting frustrated. :)

We actualy had 2nd grade students doing some amazing stuff with The GIMP
at Corbett Elementary School.
> 
> So... I've started writing "Tux Paint," a simplified (and kind of
> constricted) painting program that uses libSDL.  (To be released as GPL,
> and probably under Tux4Kids.org)

Great.  You might want to look at gpaint and xpaint, both are also
currently in use at Corbett along with Stickerbooks.

> You can see screenshots of what I have so far (as well as the mockup
> I whipped up just before, to give me an idea of how it should look)
> on my website, here:
> 
>   http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/tuxpaint/
> 
> 
> Right now, it's just a few screenshots - not even an HTML page.
> I'll get to that later.  It's already 8:30pm and I'm still at work.
> I need to go home and eat. :)

Looks great!

> 
> Enjoy!  Once it can _do_ something (e.g., let the user draw), I'll
> release an alpha version for people to prod at.

Let me know, and I will start playing with it from a user prospective.

		Harry
> 
> -bill!
> [email protected]
> http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/
> 
> 
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