Albert Cahalan wrote: > Bernardo Innocenti writes: > >> On 11/25/07 18:58, Mike C. Fletcher wrote: >> > > >>> * we need to make use on multi-user machines easy, where Sugar >>> is just a desktop manager session that is run just as one >>> would run KDE or Gnome (so that computing lab situations can >>> let children use Sugar's safe, rich without giving up the >>> ability to run KDE/Gnome) >>> >> AFAIK, both the mainstream desktops were far too bloated to >> be usable on the XO. I can easily believe it, as the latest >> versions are almost unusable on my 1GHz iBook G4, too. >> > > I think the point is to make a "Sugar desktop" be an choice > on a normal machine. Maybe one could select it at login, or > switch to it via some control panel. It'd be like how people > choose between KDE and GNOME. Sugar would be another choice. > > That would be nice. > That was the thrust of the idea, i.e. to let existing "computer lab" environments or new alternate machines include a Sugar desktop environment that a child can log into, while still allowing the manufacturer to ship a "normal" desktop to hedge their bets. > Another thought along those lines is to simply allow Sugar > activities to run on the normal desktops. Depending on what > is best for the particular activity, it comes up fullscreen > (which may be 2560x1600) or in a 1200x900 window. > Some of the activities will already run on a normal desktop, via a bit of shim code. Most of the problems tend to be in the system-setup stuff (there's no Sugar Shell or similar services running, so if you depend on it, you'll fail), which is why I was proposing the "desktop" level accommodation to start with.
Have fun, Mike -- ________________________________________________ Mike C. Fletcher Designer, VR Plumber, Coder http://www.vrplumber.com http://blog.vrplumber.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
