Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-12 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:19 AM, RJV wrote: > Implement a shell -- replacing the standard Android shell -- that has the > main features of Sugar shell > > This looks like the nearest to what I hope to achieve - the same experience > of the XO on a hand-held device especially the Ad-Hoc networking.

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread RJV
Implement a shell -- replacing the standard Android shell -- that has the main features of Sugar shell This looks like the nearest to what I hope to achieve - the same experience of the XO on a hand-held device especially the Ad-Hoc networking. Jv On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Martin Langhof

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
I'm sorry! Looks like I misread your name. A faux pass typical of borderline autistic people -- get all the technical details clearly, mess up the other person's name. Hope the technical part was useful. No offense intended. cheers, martin On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:12 PM, RJV wrote: > Thanks,

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread RJV
Thanks, Martin. Btw, where did you deduce the name "Rajiv" from? :) RJv On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Implement a shell -- replacing the standard Android shell -- that > has the main features of Sugar shell > -- Regards, *Ravichandran J.V.* http://ravichandranjv.

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
Hi Rajiv, your plan seems to have good goals, but is missing some understanding of what you can and cannot do. You cannot run Sugar (a Python-based window manager, based on traditional Linux sw stack) on the Android stack. Way too different. To reach your goals, however, you could try something

Re: Porting Sugar on Android (Ice cream sandwich)

2012-12-11 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I think Sugar could be something like an alternative gui shell similar cynogen http://www.cyanogenmod.org/ On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:24 AM, RJV wrote: > Hi, > > We are planning to port Sugar on Android and are faced with these options: > > 1. Sugar as an application on Android. > 2. As a platfor