Must preface this noting that I am relatively naive about Sugar internals. "Your thoughts are stupid and your face ugly" may be the most appropiate answer to this - after all, I know about the server, not the laptop :-)
... Thinking about how to extend the appeal (and long term viability!) of sugar activities, one thing that appears as a clear opportunity is to create a wrapper that allows to run sugar activities in a conventional gnome/kde/xfce/awesome desktop. It could open a regular window (instead of the root window), and mimick the minimal set of Sugar facilities that activities depend on. Perhaps a thinner, lighter set of classes providing the sugar api (add the path to these "shim" libraries early in the python path to mask the "full blown" sugar libs). Right now, if I install on ubuntu sugar-activities, I get turteart, but I can only use it inside sugar-emulator. If we had such a shim so that $ sugar-wrapper turtleart would start turtleart in a regular window, then that command can be given an icon in my gnome menu, kde's kickstart menu, etc. Of course there are some hard things - clipboard support probably needs glue - journal behaviour - though it might be relatively simple - naming documents that the user hasn't named explicitly - the initial steps of sharing a collaborative activity (announcement, invites, etc) but if it's within reach, it can be worthwhile. thoughts? bricks? cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list Sugar@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar