[sugar] sugar roadmap

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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Patrick Dubroy wrote:
| On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
|>  >  Another option would be to create a version of Sugar that appeals to
|>  >  programmers. But I can't imagine creating such a version that wouldn't
|>  >  require a lot of programming resources.
|
| So here's another question: are any of the Sugar developers using it
| as their desktop shell? I was thinking of giving that try. If all the
| Sugar developer were eating their own dogfood, I'll bet you'd get a
| programmer-friendly system in a hurry. In fact, I don't see why it
| would be considered to be programmer-friendly already -- it's got
| terminal and a text editor, what more do you need? ;-)

Yes: I take my XO with me to class and take notes in Write.  I used to
take my Thinkpad with me everywhere; now it never leaves my desk.  I run
unmodified Joyride builds on my XO, and I find the interface to be both
superb and useful.  I recently developed the DOSConsole activity solely on
the XO itself, not because I was trying to prove any point but because it
was the most convenient way.

No: On my desktop I run in Xinerama with two different-sized LCDs.
Together, they have about 8 times the area of an XO screen.  Sugar will
never make sense for that hardware without a serious redesign.  On the
other hand, running individual activities in windows managed by Metacity
would probably work fine.

| Anyhow, speaking as someone who has only very recently gotten involved
| with the project, I can say that the Sugar interface was one of the
| most appealing things to me. I'm sure there are other  potential
| contributors out there who would be attracted for the same reasons.

Me too.  The project was vaguely interesting until I ran Sugar in Qemu, at
which point it became compelling.

- --Ben
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