[IAEP] Sugar Labs Vision Discussion in 6 hours

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Thu Jun 16 08:14:07 EDT 2016


On 16 June 2016 at 04:34, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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".
>

I think since Sugar launched the rise and now dominance of iOS and Android
- which also do away with the desktop metaphor - means this is no longer as
big a claim as it once was, and I don't think its even worth mentioning any
more.
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