[Sugar-devel] activity sandbox

[blekros sugar]

Thanks, I'll check out the documentation and get up to speed a little more.
 Meantime --

I just want to make sure I understand:

1.   Sugar activities *are* Python scripts -- but they use Linux-specific
packages, instead of using os.* or sys.* packages, which wrap the OS that
lies beneath.   Same for GTK+.  The GUI cannot be made to use ported
versions of the GTK+ API.

2.  The Sugar shell is not a service layer between the bare metal Linux OS
and Sugar presentation (its "desktop") .  In other words, the shell cannot
be updated to plug into to modern device OSes such as I/Pad or Android.

3.  No one has attempted to port Activities, i.e. the FUN stuff,  to
Browser apps (HTML 5 + Javascript) so any kid with a smart phone could play
with, say, Physics, or Turtle.


Brad






On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 2012-08-28, at 15:53, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:49 AM, blekros sugar <blekros.sugar at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I'd like to use Eclipse with PyDev on Windows to try to build
> activities.
> >>
> >> Has the Sugar shell been ported to Windows (x86) or Android or iOS or
> as a chrome / firefox plugin so that I can use my existing environments
> without VMWare or VirtualBox?
> >>
> >
> > No. Sugar run in a linux os.
>
> Right. Sugar activities do not only require the Sugar Shell to run. They
> are full-fledged Linux applications that follow a few additional
> conventions to function well in Sugar. But that means that they need a full
> Linux + X11 operating system stack to work.
>
> >> I can't find anything resembling an object model, or class diagram that
> shows the architectural breakdown of Sugar.   Where to look?
> >
> > Sadly, our documentation is not in a good shape.
> > Today, the best doc is the code itself.
>
> Well, there still is *some* documentation for activity authors.
>
> We have a nice book:
>
>         http://en.flossmanuals.net/make-your-own-sugar-activities/
>
> And for a more low-level understanding there is this documentation page:
>
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Low-level_Activity_API
>
> More documentation resources are listed at
>
>         http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Resources
>
> - Bert -
>
>
>
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