[Sugar-devel] How to move on? Spins, SoaS, and more!

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebastian at when.com> wrote:
>> But regarding the Education Spin: Couldn't we push Sugar in there?
>>
>> The KDE project is doing a great job with their applications regarding
>> education, and they continue to do so. Recently, Greg made me aware of
>> this project [4], where they try to use Plasma for such purposes.
>>
>> Now. Wouldn't it be an idea, to work again on the Education Spin and
>> restructure it a bit, include Sugar, talk about the advantages of using
>> KDE, and so on?
>>
>> I want to ask for your opinion to make sure that this isn't happening
>> too early. But that way, we could provide a great educational solution,
>> based on Fedora, helping both the Sugar and KDE Edu project.
>>
>> But for this, we need a kind of collaboration, between those projects
>> (e.g. Fedora / Sugar or Fedora / KDE Edu), so that we can provide a well
>> designed, usable solution.
> 
> Can you elaborate on what kind of collaboration are you thinking about
> here? Is the idea to ship Sugar as an alternative desktop on the Edu
> spin or something different?
> 
> Marco

Heh. ;) Nothing's written in stone...

What I was thinking of was a kind of integration of Sugar into such a 
spin. Putting as many desktop environments as one can find is probably 
not the best idea right? So it would need to be worked out, how this 
(Sugar & e.g. KDE Edu) can be combined into a well fitting solution.

As I mentioned, the Education Spin is currently based on XFCE. Now think 
about cscott's work here [1]. What, if we managed to get this into 
Fedora? And what, if we continued to ship XFCE among with kdeedu, but 
also included Sugar, with a more or less easy possibility to directly 
switch between them?

Caroline stated that "A 4 year old should not face a dialog box asking 
gnome or sugar.  A 12 year old with experience should be able to break 
out of sugar to the full power of Linux."

So. Does this sound like an idea? There might be probably other ways of 
integrating Sugar here, but it's at least a beginning.

--Sebastian

[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XFCE_and_Sugar