<div dir="ltr">I think adding standard applications to sugar will not be good,<div>not for "purity" but because we lost many features from Sugar:</div><div>consistency, the use of the Journal, the simple interface.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the practice, you can use Gnome to launch these apps (if they are not Sugarized)</div><div> <div>Is true we need reinvent a lot (in fact we have a custom browser,</div><div>a custom word processor and so) but is the cost of design something</div>
<div>different, and with a specific target in mind.</div><div><br></div><div>About your particular need, can be useful modify GridPaint,</div><div>to work with squares instead of triangles?</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4647">http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4647</a><br>
</div></div><div><br></div><div>Reagrds,</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Sebastian Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian@fuentelibre.org" target="_blank">sebastian@fuentelibre.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I know this topic has been discussed here more than once.<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
<br>
So I guess I can contribute to define what I mean:<br>
<br>
1. Support <a rel="nofollow" href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#install_icons" target="_blank">Freedesktop.Org
Icon specification</a> and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html#guidelines" target="_blank">icon
naming conventions</a> for non-sugar applications, instead of the
grey dot in the Frame. <br>
2. Support <a rel="nofollow" href="http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.0.html" target="_blank">Freedesktop.Org
Desktop Entry specification</a> for launching non-sugar
applications. Proposal: use ~/.sugar/launchers/ for .desktop files.
These would appear in the Home View, much like Activities do.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Sebastian<br>
PS: Extra points for sugarizing aseprite, it's really cool:
<a href="http://www.aseprite.org/" target="_blank">http://www.aseprite.org/</a> . Hints and pointers on where to begin are
also welcome.<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Gonzalo Odiard<br><br><div>SugarLabs - Learning Software for children<br></div></div>
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