On Apr 6, 2007, at 0:37 , Don Hopkins wrote: > Albert Cahalan wrote: >> The standard words in English are "app" and "program". Pick one. >> Either will be far less confusing than "activity". > I think the whole point of using the word "activity" instead of > "application" or "program" was to purposefully AVOID the > unfortunate connotations of the well understood words for desktop > applications and programs. One of the goals of Sugar is for > monolithic "applications" to be broken down into reusable > components, and integrated into task oriented "activities" (like > eToys or HyperCard stacks), instead of requiring the user to switch > between monolithic single-purpose applications, like editing an > image in Photoshop, formatting text in Word, and composing images > and text them into a web page in Front Page. Of course there is a > text editor "activity" and a book reader "activity", but ideally > those are reusable Python components that can be integrated > together into other activities (eventually by the casual user, like > eToys and HyperCard), instead of locking them up into separate > "applications".
Well spoken, Don. Fully agree. "Activity" is far less demarcating than "application" or "program". Ideally, "activities" would just be different pre-arranged "views" into one and the same system that is made of freely interchangeable components. - Bert - _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
