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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

Lucid Lynx, the next version of Scratch, will be on feature freeze Feb. 18.
So we'd like to submit a package to be included in it, ready or not, before
that date. (We can hopefully submit fixes after that date, but the process
gets trickier). Mako has agreed to sponsor it. He suggested, however, that
we submit a version of the package that depends on the squeak-vm in the
ubuntu repositories (1.3.9.8-3ubuntu3)instead of including its own VM (3.10
- 4 beta #1 dated Feb. 2009), which is how we've done it so far.

It's easy to switch to using the Squeak-vm from the ubuntu repositories, but
it introduces a new bug when Scratch is run under Compiz. It causes the
Scratch cat and other sprites to be "see through" ( see attached image )
Note that it's possible to see text on windows underneath the Scratch window
through the representations of the icons - but not clearly. Kind of an
interesting bug!

So it seems likely this might be caused by the VM - but I thought I'd check
with you to see if maybe there is a workaround, or some solution that could
be implemented in Scratch. If not, can we ask someone to submit a newer
version of the VM for inclusion in the Ubuntu repositories?

-Amos

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Amos

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