[Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs Roadmap.

[Walter Bender]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> 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.

+1

If there are specific apps that you think should be part of the Sugar
repertoire, we should discuss porting them to Sugar.

-walter

>
> 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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