[sugar] Porting apps, which ones?

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 20.10.2006 um 13:16 schrieb Marco Pesenti Gritti:

> MBurns wrote:
>> Is there a OLPC blessed list of what programs would like to be  
>> ported/packaged for the laptop? It seems right now that is either  
>> core system software, or individual developers scratching their  
>> own itch. The wiki doesn't appear to have any specific list.
>>
>> A small group of us at Oregon State would like to help contribute  
>> in building application bundles and the like, but would rather our  
>> goals be put toward a real need, rather than something we think  
>> would be useful. What applications should we look into working on?
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> so, that's a good question... I think porting some GNOME apps to  
> sugar would be interesting (someone started to port abiword and  
> evince for example).
>
> Though I suggest to take a different approach.
>
> With sugar we are redesigning the user experience top-down, which  
> means traditional desktop applications doesn't integrate well. I  
> don't mean we should rewrite everything but that it takes some  
> thinking to decide what to port and how to make it fit inside the  
> sugar environment. For the browser, for example, we aren't taking  
> firefox or epiphany as is, instead we are reusing the engine but  
> rewriting the user interface so that we can integrate it better  
> with sugar. It's also matter of visual integration but not only  
> that. The browser for example has a sharing links feature which  
> reuse the mesh infrastructure that sugar is providing.
>
> We need help to work on the sugar shell and to write the core  
> activities (reusing code from other applications where it make  
> sense). We don't have a TODO for sugar yet but we should have one.
>
> Anyway, if you are interested to help out, we can figure out a  
> start point.

I was thinking that maybe an email activity would be very nice to  
have. Clean and simple, this is for kids, remember. My own kids are  
overwhelmed by something like Thunderbird. Also, later an integration  
with the other stuff (journal, clipboard, etc) would be needed.

- Bert -