[IAEP] Sugar Digest 2011-10-11

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:03 AM,  <forster at ozonline.com.au> wrote:
>>  > .. The only activity shipped with Sugar is a very old version of Turtle Art./
>
>> Plan Ceibal installed that Sugar 0.87.1, (on Ubuntu 10.04.3) because they didn't Know that TurtleArt Runs on
>> Ubunto+Gnome, they think that running Turtle Art under Sugar is the only Way to install it.
>
> Turtleart runs under Gnome. Unfortunately later XO OS's hide the Activities directory and do not allow read access. If you do not have the permissions or skill you can not then run Turtleart in Gnome.
>
> It might be good to include Turtleart with Gnome, in the same way Inkscape, Gnumeric and Abiword work out of the box. Is this practical?
>
> Tony
>

Turtle Art need not be installed in ~/Activities. You can unzip the
.xo file anywhere and run it from the command line: ./turtleart.py

-walter

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Walter Bender
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