[sugar] Porting apps, which ones?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

Hi,

regarding evince, perhaps better than having an evince activity would be
to have a python component that gives the capability of reading pdfs,
ps, etc, to the other activities.

This component would embed evince and expose an api for turning pages,
searching, etc.

I have seen some work on an evince activity on the git repository but I
think there are some files missing.

Regards,

Tomeu

On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 13:16 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> MBurns wrote:
> > Is there a OLPC blessed list of what programs would like to be 
> > ported/packaged for the laptop? It seems right now that is either core 
> > system software, or individual developers scratching their own itch. 
> > The wiki doesn't appear to have any specific list.
> >
> > A small group of us at Oregon State would like to help contribute in 
> > building application bundles and the like, but would rather our goals 
> > be put toward a real need, rather than something we think would be 
> > useful. What applications should we look into working on?
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> so, that's a good question... I think porting some GNOME apps to sugar 
> would be interesting (someone started to port abiword and evince for 
> example).
> 
> Though I suggest to take a different approach.
> 
> With sugar we are redesigning the user experience top-down, which means 
> traditional desktop applications doesn't integrate well. I don't mean we 
> should rewrite everything but that it takes some thinking to decide what 
> to port and how to make it fit inside the sugar environment. For the 
> browser, for example, we aren't taking firefox or epiphany as is, 
> instead we are reusing the engine but rewriting the user interface so 
> that we can integrate it better with sugar. It's also matter of visual 
> integration but not only that. The browser for example has a sharing 
> links feature which reuse the mesh infrastructure that sugar is providing.
> 
> We need help to work on the sugar shell and to write the core activities 
> (reusing code from other applications where it make sense). We don't 
> have a TODO for sugar yet but we should have one.
> 
> Anyway, if you are interested to help out, we can figure out a start point.
> 
> Marco
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