[Sugar-devel] Sugar-0.88 ppa on Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic)

[Aleksey Lim]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 06:01:59AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:22:16PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:55:24AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:27:32PM +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:49:02AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> > > > > I've created sugar 0.88 based ppa for karmic,
> > > > > intructions are here
> > > > > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Community/Distributions/Ubuntu#Sugar-0.88_on_Ubuntu_9.10_.28karmic.29
> > > > 
> > > > Those instructions run without flaw, but how do I get to use Sugar?
> > > 
> > > There are no ubuntu specific workflows so I didn't post such intructions.
> > 
> > Ah, neat excuse.
> > 
> > I used the most obvious action, type sugar at a shell prompt and press
> > enter.  This is what anybody else might try in the absence of
> > documentation.  The result was surprisingly bad; missing icons,
> > invisible UI elements, and elements hidden by GNOME components.
> > 
> > It was better to select Sugar from the Education category in the
> > Applications menu.  This launched a window which said it was Xephyr, but
> > that's not what I asked for, so I stopped it and tried again.  It still
> > said it was Xephyr.  I don't think it should, it should say Sugar, but
> > anyway, the on screen result was much better, in that the icons were
> > properly present.
> 
> yeah, good catch
> I'll upload version with tweaked Xephyr title

heh, karmic's Xephyr is too old and doesn't have -title option

-- 
Aleksey