[Sugar-devel] Sugar on Fedora

[Philippe Clérié]

Thanks for the suggestions. In the meantime I found that the last 
session automatically becomes the default so that's cool. I also 
found that I could change the keyboard at login. So I'm covered here 
too.

Thanks

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Philippe

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The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
<Anonymous>

On Wednesday 15 July 2009 07:22:20 Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> 2009/7/15 Philippe Clérié <philippe at gcal.net>:
> > I've had both Soas and Sugar on Fedora installed in KVM
> > machines. A year ago or so I had problems with the joyride
> > builds, so that's progress... :-)
>
> Joyride builds weren't intended to run on non-XO hardware, so
> that's expected.
>
> > Soas seems to work just fine so far. I have a couple of issues
> > with Fedora but I am not sure yet they qualify as bugs.
> >
> > 1) I need a way to make Sugar the default session. As it is, it
> > took me a few minutes to figure out how to get the sessions
> > options to show. I don't expect anyone (particularly the
> > teachers, kids will adapt to anything!) to enjoy that part.
>
> Can you expand a bit on this? What you needed to do? Sugar should
> be just one more desktop choice and I guess that if there's only
> Sugar, it will be the one people log into without needing to
> setup anything.
>
> > 2) I plan to use the french version of sugar. But I'd rather
> > have a US International (or variant thereof) keyboard. The
> > standard keyboard in Haiti is the US variant. So how do I set
> > that up?
>
> You can change the language from the control panel. About the
> keyboard, I don't remember the details but it was discussed
> recently in the Sugar mailing lists. Something worth taking into
> account is that Sugar uses the same low level mechanisms as other
> desktops, so you can see which locale env vars and X commands you
> can run in other desktops and chances are they will work as well
> in Sugar.
>
> When searching the archives, take into account that Sugar
> development has moved to Sugar Labs: http://lists.sugarlabs.org
>
> > 3) At least in KVM, Soas makes better use of screen resolution
> > than Fedora. How can that be fixed?
>
> See how SoaS sets the SUGAR_SCALING env var in the (I think)
> ~/.Xclients file. This may need to be fixed in Fedora, please
> enter a ticket in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ if you think so.
>
> > 4) There are going to be a lot of extra, unneeded packages that
> > I'd like to get rid of. I hoped that there was a Fedora spin of
> > sugar, but it appears that was folded into Soas. But Soas is
> > not designed to be installed on a hard disk. Why not? Why not
> > give people the ability to setup a computer with sugar as the
> > desktop?
>
> Easier installing to the hard disk is a goal for SoaS v2, but in
> the meantime, it should still be possible after installing some
> packages. Check out wiki.sugarlabs.org and the mailing lists for
> more details.
>
> Sugar and SoaS are collaborative projects carried by people in
> their free time, so your feedback and help are very much
> appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> > --
> >
> >
> > Philippe
> >
> > ------
> > The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
> > <Anonymous>
> >
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