I think adding standard applications to sugar will not be good, not for "purity" but because we lost many features from Sugar: consistency, the use of the Journal, the simple interface.
In the practice, you can use Gnome to launch these apps (if they are not Sugarized) Is true we need reinvent a lot (in fact we have a custom browser, a custom word processor and so) but is the cost of design something different, and with a specific target in mind. About your particular need, can be useful modify GridPaint, to work with squares instead of triangles? http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4647 Reagrds, Gonzalo On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org>wrote: > I know this topic has been discussed here more than once. > I feel there is a resistance because of a "purity" of design. However it's > a bit silly that we need to reinvent everything because we have a thing for > simplicity. > For instance I'm doing a workshop with children and I'd have liked to use > "aseprite", a pixel art design program that has everything I need and a > simple interface. Paint activity isn't quite apt for the job. > > So I guess I can contribute to define what I mean: > > 1. Support Freedesktop.Org Icon > specification<http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html#install_icons>and > icon > naming > conventions<http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html#guidelines>for > non-sugar applications, instead of the grey dot in the Frame. > 2. Support Freedesktop.Org Desktop Entry > specification<http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-1.0.html>for > launching non-sugar applications. Proposal: use ~/.sugar/launchers/ for > .desktop files. These would appear in the Home View, much like Activities > do. > > I know we are in Feature Freeze but I only want to propose and discuss the > merits of the feature, so maybe I or others can invest the time required to > achieve this for the next release. > > Regards, > Sebastian > PS: Extra points for sugarizing aseprite, it's really cool: > http://www.aseprite.org/ . Hints and pointers on where to begin are also > welcome. > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- Gonzalo Odiard SugarLabs - Learning Software for children
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