[Sugar-devel] Fwd: sugar ui

[Aleksey Lim]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:18:42PM +1000, David Brown wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Brown <djhbrown at gmail.com>
> Date: 10 August 2012 12:13
> Subject: sugar ui
> To: Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>, xorduino at gmail.com,
> volunteer at laptop.org
> 
> 
> dear olpcers,
> 
> ....
>
> i like the notion of sugar network, but when i look at the screenshots on
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Network/Tutorial i find it hard to
> imagine what a child would do with it.  a screen full of coloured x's does
> not convey any useful information other than the number of them... it reads
> as if it was made by unix enthusiasts for unix enthusiasts

What you see on screenshots (the same on http://network-testing.sugarlabs.org)
is a first rough and implementation for webui, i.e., Web interface to Sugar
Network. The whole work includes not only UI, but also bunch of technical
stuff, e.g., supporting Internet-less environements. In other words, UI
question is really open.

Besides, Sugar Network itself, will be used not only by kids, but also
by, e.g., teachers who will prepare content for students, developers who
upload new Sugar activities, etc. Thus, Sugar Network will have several
UIs for different purposes.

I've CCed people who are working on current webui implementation (that
is intended to be piloted in several Peruvian schools). If you are have
time, you can help to make UI more useful.

-- 
Aleksey