[Sugar-devel] Better support for running non-sugar apps under Sugar (also pls sugarize aseprite) :-)

[Gonzalo Odiard]

I think adding standard applications to sugar will not be good,
not for "purity" but because we lost many features from Sugar:
consistency, the use of the Journal, the simple interface.

In the practice, you can use Gnome to launch these apps (if they are not
Sugarized)

Is true we need reinvent a lot (in fact we have a custom browser,
a custom word processor and so) but is the cost of design something
different, and with a specific target in mind.

About your particular need, can be useful modify GridPaint,
to work with squares instead of triangles?

http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4647

Reagrds,

Gonzalo


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Sebastian Silva
<sebastian at fuentelibre.org>wrote:

>  I know this topic has been discussed here more than once.
> I feel there is a resistance because of a "purity" of design. However it's
> a bit silly that we need to reinvent everything because we have a thing for
> simplicity.
> For instance I'm doing a workshop with children and I'd have liked to use
> "aseprite", a pixel art design program that has everything I need and a
> simple interface. Paint activity isn't quite apt for the job.
>
> So I guess I can contribute to define what I mean:
>
> 1. Support Freedesktop.Org Icon specification<http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#install_icons>and icon
> naming conventions<http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html#guidelines>for non-sugar applications, instead of the grey dot in the Frame.
> 2. Support Freedesktop.Org Desktop Entry specification<http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.0.html>for launching non-sugar applications. Proposal: use ~/.sugar/launchers/ for
> .desktop files. These would appear in the Home View, much like Activities
> do.
>
> I know we are in Feature Freeze but I only want to propose and discuss the
> merits of the feature, so maybe I or others can invest the time required to
> achieve this for the next release.
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
> PS: Extra points for sugarizing aseprite, it's really cool:
> http://www.aseprite.org/ . Hints and pointers on where to begin are also
> welcome.
>
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Gonzalo Odiard

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