On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Patrick Dubroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > True, I'm afraid too that at the short and medium term hackers won't > > be scratching their itches in Sugar. But is also true that for many > > people, making education more accessible is one of the main itches in > > their lives. Those people are there, but will take time to pick them > > from the crowd. > > Has there been any thought in trying to position Sugar as a more > general-purpose desktop? I don't see it as being particularly > child-specific. It might also appeal to people who are looking for a > simple, no-nonsense interface, especially to install on older machines > or some of these new sub-notebooks that are getting popular.
Certainly. > > > Another option would be to create a version of Sugar that appeals to > > > programmers. But I can't imagine creating such a version that wouldn't > > > require a lot of programming resources. > > So here's another question: are any of the Sugar developers using it > as their desktop shell? I was thinking of giving that try. If all the > Sugar developer were eating their own dogfood, I'll bet you'd get a > programmer-friendly system in a hurry. In fact, I don't see why it > would be considered to be programmer-friendly already -- it's got > terminal and a text editor, what more do you need? ;-) Yes, but we are so few developers that until now we have decided to focus on the most immediate goals. But if you wanted to give it a try and post the missing features that you think are most needed, you're more than welcome. For sugar development, I have dreamed on a sugar shell nested inside an activity, so you could restart that nested shell without loosing your open activities, etc > Anyhow, speaking as someone who has only very recently gotten involved > with the project, I can say that the Sugar interface was one of the > most appealing things to me. I'm sure there are other potential > contributors out there who would be attracted for the same reasons. Yes, I hope that the community grows soon to a point where newcomers are better welcomed and contributions better received. Thanks, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel