[IAEP] First competitor?

[Walter Bender]

At this point, I think I have used Sugar more on non-XO computers than
XO computers. The only real issue for me are the keyboard mappings:
the lack of a dedicated Frame key in particular. (0.83 makes a big --
positive -- difference in that I am no longer needing to cycle through
the Journal to restart activities.)

It would be good to do some brainstorming about keyboard mappings and
support for touchscreens in the 0.86 planning.

-walter

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Sugar is a very good interface for the OLPC computers it was made
> for, but many of the design decisions and interfaces don't work nearly
> as well on standard PCs."
>
> I'm curious what people think about this statement.  I tend to agree
> that some design decisions were biased toward the XO-1 hardware, but I
> don't think that any of the decisions actually fail on a "standard
> PC", and I actually think Sugar scales pretty well in terms of
> interaction. However, if we can assume their perspective and locate
> some areas which aren't ideal on all hardware, perhaps we can work on
> resolving them.  Anyone have some examples?
>
> - Eben
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It claims to be a standalone home computer environment for kids, not a
>> classroom environment.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>>> ,Josh williams wrote:
>>>> Looks like a Microsoft project, they're hosted on IIS and the site is
>>>> written in ASP.
>>>
>>> Might also be a bad choice of web hosting provider.  The entire ISO
>>> image contains free software.
>>>
>>> --
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Walter Bender
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