[Sugar-devel] Non sugar activities on ASLO

[Aleksey Lim]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:03:24PM -0600, David Farning wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 17:30, Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org> wrote:
> >> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:23:22PM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Non sugar activities we (could)have on ASLO:
> >>>
> >>> ++  programs with high sugar integration(journal etc.)
> >>> +   programs that start smooth in sugar environment(sugarised screen mode etc.)
> >>
> >> btw "sugarizing" programs only by fixing window issues and bundling
> >> blobs to .xo could be also wrong way to go, better to have universal
> >> method to run non-sugar programs w/o troubles with
> >> non-fullsreen/dialogs/etc windows.
> >
> > Is there any serious problem other than the launcher not appearing in
> > the home view? About the launcher issue, we could support .desktop
> > files.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tomeu
> 
> I have been trying to keep current active Sugar Labs developers 'out
> of the way' on activities.sugarlabs.org policies.  a.sl.o is one of
> the most user driven and user visible aspects of Sugar Labs.    A very
> interesting recent thread has been about distributing scratch via
> a.sl.o.  This has been interesting, and hopefully precedent setting,
> because it has been driven by users asking for something rather than
> Sugar Labs trying to provide something.
> 
> One of the key premises behind community development is participants
> who see a problem which needs fixing.... and then take the time to fix
> it.  In this case, Jeff has been tracking down what is necessary to
> distribute scratch as an .XO bundle.  The short answer for why scratch
> is not in a.sl.o is that no one has had the time, interest, and
> ability to package and maintain scratch 1.4.  Maybe that person will
> be Jeff or he can find someone who can work on scratch.

in case of "how to package something to .xo bundle"(which is not sugar
activity) I start think that we are trying to do redundant work, we can
utilize 0install(for example), so sugar and 0install(for example)
communities will benefit each other.

-- 
Aleksey