[IAEP] Sugar Labs Vision Discussion in 6 hours

Sean DALY sdaly.be at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 04:34:48 EDT 2016


On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:

> There is Sugar (now being referred to as a desktop which is ironic since
> the Sugar HIG were intended to
> replace the desktop metaphor) and the Sugar activities
>


I have always vigorously opposed referring to Sugar as a "desktop".
GNU/Linux developers like this term which has a specific meaning for them -
a GUI shell. It's worse than confusing for teachers for us to claim that we
do away with the desktop metaphor with a... "desktop".

Sean.
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