I think allowing web-based activities would be a great start to this integration. <div><br></div><div>It's currently on the ActivityTeam TODO page and has been discussed a few times in the mailing lists, but let me know if you would be interested in a more formal spec.<div> <br></div><div>The major change involves moving the WebActivity class into the Sugar toolkit itself, and providing a web-activity wrapper script to launch web based activities.</div><div><br></div><div>One example use would be a 'Facebook' activity which is simply a wrapper around Browse which launches into Facebook. Same goes for the (deprecated) Gmail activity, etc.</div> <div><br></div><div>Once we have the web activity framework inside Sugar, it would be simpler to extend this to adding web (or Python!) "widgets" aka KDE4, OSX and Google Desktop to Sugar.</div><div><br></div><div> Cheers,</div><div>Wade</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Walter Bender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">walter.bender@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <<a href="mailto:tomeu@sugarlabs.org">tomeu@sugarlabs.org</a>> wrote:<br> > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:12, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> >> Building a website for kids seems like a great idea to me. An online<br> >> extension of the Sugar interface could foster interaction between<br> >> Sugarized schools in a country and even beyond borders. The commitment<br> >> of choosing a username is not major for an existing Sugar user. And,<br> >> it could provide curious grownups with a (partial) idea of the Sugar<br> >> experience.<br> ><br> > This remembers me something that has been in the back of my mind since<br> > FOSDEM, when Patrick Sinz showed me the custom UI that they have<br> > designed for the Gdium.<br> ><br> > They use gdesklets to display some widgets in the screen that relate<br> > to some online activity of the user. Those desklets can display info<br> > from facebook, gmail, rss feeds of all kinds, etc. The idea being (as<br> > I understood it) that the gdium is not only the physical device on the<br> > hands of the user, but also a medium through which sync a global,<br> > virtual identity with the local, real identity of the user. Of course<br> > this assumes an internet connection of some reliability.<br> ><br> > This may be related to a global "bulletin board", concept so often<br> > discussed but still so far from being implemented:<br> ><br> > <a href="http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Bulletin_Boards" target="_blank">http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Bulletin_Boards</a><br> ><br> > What do people think? Accessing, caching and displaying some online<br> > content inside the Sugar shell instead of only inside Browse seem like<br> > an idea worth discussing?<br> <br> </div>Seems like a good idea.<br> <br> Perhaps we should start a separate thread for this discussion:<br> building a kids website and/or making Sugar shell more web-friendly<br> are very different problems from the problem of reaching out to<br> parents and teachers.<br> <br> -walter<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> Walter Bender<br> Sugar Labs<br> <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br> </font><div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>