On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonz...@laptop.org> wrote: > Personally, I don't think we need support regular desktop apps, > because doing it, we lost consistency in the desktop, > and there are already a lot of general purpose desktops already. > > Sugar is a desktop for kids, simplicity and consistency between > activities is a plus. The XOs can use Gnome, to support other applications.
+1 If there are specific apps that you think should be part of the Sugar repertoire, we should discuss porting them to Sugar. -walter > > Gonzalo > > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 1:00 AM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> > wrote: >> >> El 08/11/13 19:19, Daniel Narvaez escribió: >> >> I wonder if we should try to get some classmates in the hands of Sugar >> Labs community members. It seems like the most solid hardware option we have >> for deployments at the moment. >> >> Classmates are pretty solid. I've got a couple of them from 2010. It's >> basically a low end Atom class netbook. >> Let me know if you need me to test anything. I'm intrigued by your >> Archlinux work, btw, these could be nice targets for it. >> >> FYI Venezuela gave one to each primary school child and Argentina has I >> think about a couple of million of them. >> >> My 2yr old daughter loves to use Doudoulinux on the classmates, and has I >> think more fun than with Sugar. >> Ref: http://www.doudoulinux.org >> >> This brings me to a proposal to put in the Sugar roadmap: >> 100% compatibility with regular linux apps. >> To me that means appropiate ways to: >> * Launch/favorite from home view >> * Have correct Frame Icon (not grey ball). >> >> * Nice to haves: >> * notification area >> * proper unobstrusive but readable libnotify support >> * find created documents / files. >> * missing standard icons, with sugar look and feel >> >> The rationale is it would open up a bunch of content and apps unavailable >> to us for no good reason, as seen in Doudoulinux for young children and >> other stuff for older ones, such as Celestia, etc. >> >> Also, having this, would turn me into a user, and I believe in dogfooding. >> I used 0.94 for a long time, >> but reverted to XFCE. >> >> I have not created a feature page because I can't commit the time to >> implementing it myself. >> >> Regards, >> Sebastian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel