<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:30 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">bert wrote:<br>
> On 24.02.2009, at 19:09, Carol Farlow Lerche wrote:<br>
</div> ...<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"> > > Asking for better documentation doesn't imply that the facility is<br>
> > new. It recognizes that development has reached a local minimum in<br>
> > an important component that is not well understood by many. My post<br>
> > was a request to the most knowledgeable person, Michael to do the<br>
> > service of taking the time to write a document that clearly lays out<br>
> ><br>
> > . the purpose (not in security speak but in terms of the benefits<br>
> > it brings to end users),<br>
<br>
</div>for my part, i've always felt that it's this first point of<br>
carol's that's been missing from the docs. the functional<br>
overview is very important: as a developer, you're asking me to<br>
implement a bunch of new API functionality simply to make a<br>
simple program (which may already be working well in most other unix<br>
environments) functional. i'd like to be sold on the concept<br>
first, before having to do a bunch of work for no (apparent) benefit<br>
to me or my program.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm going to bow out of this thread (back to work!) but I wanted to bring up one last point regarding Rainbow's cost to Sugar.</div><div><br></div><div>It is my sincere hope that sometime in the future Sugar will gain the ability to seamlessly launch normal X applications alongside activities. There are a great many educational Linux applications out there that would fill in gaps in our activity lineup.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I fear that Rainbow will be an obstacle to achieving this goal, as we don't have the ability to fix every application in existence to conform to our non-standard security model, and emulation hacks will never just work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Wade</div><div><br></div></div>