<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 June 2016 at 04:34, Sean DALY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sdaly.be@gmail.com" target="_blank">sdaly.be@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>There is Sugar (now being referred to as a desktop which is ironic since the Sugar HIG were intended to<br>replace the desktop metaphor) and the Sugar activities</div></blockquote></div><br><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra">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".</div></blockquote></div><br>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. <br>
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