[Sugar-devel] Sugar as a Green Design Pattern (James Cameron)

[Walter Bender]

2011/12/6 Lionel Laské <lionel at olpc-france.org>:
> Hi Gary,
>
>>However it is worth noting that – wearing my Sugar Activity hat – Sugar
> Activities have and continue to need to play their part in the mix as well.
> There are >many activity examples that make specific power usage decisions.
> To take one case, the Physics Activity is a computationally expensive
> programme and it >takes great care to suspend its simulation processing when
> the user switches away from the activity view. You can also argue that
> efforts of the Sugar >toolkit/shell developers to keep their eyes on the
> goals of low memory and low processing requirements has and is critical to
> the success of keeping >resource consumption as low as possible. With my
> Design Team hat on, I'd love to see us improve the Sugar user experience
> with much wider use of >animation transitions and compositing, but this
> often has a notable impact on memory and cpu usage, so again we've tried to
> avoid such system >requirements.
>
> Hmmm, interesting point.
> Or course the hard thing is to do the right balance between CPU usage and
> quality of user experience.
> BTW, reducing user experience to reduce CPU could lead to stupid decision.
> Do you imagine something like doing a classification on activities depending
> of their consumption ? Something like:
> - Activities with poor consumption: Write, Draw, ...
> - Activities with medium consumption: TurtleArt, ...
> - Activities with high consumption: Record, Physics, ...
>
> So, Green Design can't be separate from usage.

Not sure I follow you. But perhaps the best example of an Sugar/OLPC
green mashup is Read.

-walter

>
>        Lionel.
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