[Sugar-devel] Initial tests of Sugar on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

[Walter Bender]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 7:44 AM Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> wrote:

> On April 27, 2018 I downloaded the ubuntu-18.04-desktop-amd64.iso. I
> generated a boot usb drive with dd. The usb stick was used to install
> Ubuntu 18.04 LTS alongside Windows 10. Sugar was installed using sudo
> apt-get install sucrose.
>
>  From http://activities.sugarlabs.org/activities, I scraped a list of
> the most recent versions of each activity. This list contained 714
> entries. However a number turned out to be empty or duplicates. These
> reduced the list to 516 activities.
>
> I them matched each item against the repostories in
> 'http://github.com/sugarlabs'. There were corresponding repositories for
> 222 of the 516 activities. All of these repositories (.zip) were
> downloaded to the Positivo. One turned out to be empty:
> lybniz_graph_plotter.
>
> The 221 repositories were unzipped and an attempt was made to build a
> bundle with 'python setup.py dist_xo'. This process failed with
> activities which included 'from sugar.activity import activity'. These
> have not yet been ported to GTK3. This reduced the number of activities
> to 106. Each of these activities was launched from the Home View on the
> Positivo. Of these 91 executed as expected. The others failed to start
> for various reasons.
>

Did you try installing the GTK2 toolkit packages? I would think that the
GTK2 activities would still run with the toolkit installed.

>
> The details are in the attached spreadsheet - all normal disclaimers
> apply. The comment 'help' means I didn't really understand how to work
> the activity.
>
> Some general comments. The availability of Sugar on an LTS version of a
> major distribution is an opportunity to demonstrate that the value of
> Sugar is not limited to the XO. Unfortunately, the method to launch
> Sugar is not obvious. You must click on your user panel to show the
> password entry. Below, there is a 'gear' icon. You must click on that to
> choose Sugar. Then you need to enter your Ubuntu password.
>
> On the first run, you are asked about colors, gender and age. In this
> age with every site collecting private information for sale - this does
> not make a good first impression.
>
> Sugar on Ubuntu launches to the (empty) Journal View! Ubuntu itself
> provides a built-in set of welcome slides to introduce its new features.
> Sadly, Sugar launches to a brick wall. The user needs to know to display
> the Home View (using F3 or the Frame - F6).
>
> The Sugar install is minimal compared to what we have become used to.
> The Home View has 5 activities: Browse, Calculate, Chat, Pippy, and
> Write. Installed but not favorites are ImageViewer, Jukebox, Log, Read,
> and Terminal. Presumably users are expected to install additional
> activities from the 91 tested above. However, in general, these bundles
> are not available on activities.sugarlabs.org and require some technical
> expertise to install from github.
>
> On a positive note: connection to the internet and to the schoolserver
> was smooth. The Neighborhood View worked as expected. Downloads from the
> school server to the Journal worked as normal. As far as I could tell,
> the working activities showed normal screen coverage.
>
> On Sugar with Ubuntu, you are your Ubuntu user - not olpc. Activities
> available to all Sugar users on a laptop are in
> /usr/share/sugar/activities. Activities installed by
> sugar-install-bundle are in /home/yourusername/Activities and are only
> available to you. With some technical expertise you can copy an activity
> to the /usr/share/sugar/Activities directory to share it with other users.
>
> Tony
>
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Walter Bender
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