On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 13:27 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Eben Eliason writes: > > > 1. Toolbar buttons use icons instead of text as an identifier. Beyond > > Just to throw another dog into this fight, I've recently been very > concerned with making legacy applications "work as well as possible" > in the sugar environment. They will likely always be second-class > citizens, as they weren't originally designed for kids, may be overly > complex, etc, but it's clear that the limited developer resources at > OLPC don't have time to (for example) develop a full-fledged > kid-friendly video- and sound-editing application, yet that's the next > thing that kids want to do when given Record. There are some very > nice programs out there in linux land, we'd like to make using them > reasonably *possible*. Eventually, of course, we'd like to see a (for > example) inkscape port which emphasized UI simplicity, > kid-friendliness, and the rest of the Sugar guidelines, but at the > moment we're stuck using inkscape as is. >
As the parent of a 13 and 10 year old, I know that they both want things beyond what we can currently give them with Sugarized applications.... > Could someone with some experience with GTK/Gnome themes comment > briefly on how reasonable it would be to create a theme to make legacy > applications look as much as possible like our "old" sugar and "new" > sugar proposal? Heh... Our theme is just a GTK theme.... Lots of things just work. This isn't rocket science... We can make it so, if we decide to.... - Jim -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel