[Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs Roadmap.

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Personally, I don't think we need support regular desktop apps,
because doing it, we lost consistency in the desktop,
and there are already a lot of general purpose desktops already.

Sugar is a desktop for kids, simplicity and consistency between
activities is a plus.  The XOs can use Gnome, to support other applications.

Gonzalo


On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at fuentelibre.org>wrote:

>  El 08/11/13 19:19, Daniel Narvaez escribió:
>
> I wonder if we should try to get some classmates in the hands of Sugar
> Labs community members. It seems like the most solid hardware option we
> have for deployments at the moment.
>
> Classmates are pretty solid. I've got a couple of them from 2010. It's
> basically a low end Atom class netbook.
> Let me know if you need me to test anything. I'm intrigued by your
> Archlinux work, btw, these could be nice targets for it.
>
> FYI Venezuela gave one to each primary school child and Argentina has I
> think about a couple of million of them.
>
> My 2yr old daughter loves to use Doudoulinux on the classmates, and has I
> think more fun than with Sugar.
> Ref: http://www.doudoulinux.org
>
> This brings me to a proposal to put in the Sugar roadmap:
> *     100% compatibility with regular linux apps.*
> To me that means appropiate ways to:
> * Launch/favorite from home view
> * Have correct Frame Icon (not grey ball).
>
> * Nice to haves:
>     * notification area
>     * proper unobstrusive but readable libnotify support
>     * find created documents / files.
>     * missing standard icons, with sugar look and feel
>
> The rationale is it would open up a bunch of content and apps unavailable
> to us for no good reason, as seen in Doudoulinux for young children and
> other stuff for older ones, such as Celestia, etc.
>
> Also, having this, would turn me into a user, and I believe in dogfooding.
> I used 0.94 for a long time,
> but reverted to XFCE.
>
> I have not created a feature page because I can't commit the time to
> implementing it myself.
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>
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