On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 00:48, Wade Brainerd <[email protected]> wrote: > I think allowing web-based activities would be a great start to this > integration.
Sounds good. > It's currently on the ActivityTeam TODO page and has been discussed a few > times in the mailing lists, but let me know if you would be interested in a > more formal spec. I guess it would be good to list which Sugar-specific functionalities we want to offer to web-based activities and maybe propose an API?. > The major change involves moving the WebActivity class into the Sugar > toolkit itself, and providing a web-activity wrapper script to launch web > based activities. Wonder if this shouldn't live in a different module, though maybe not inside hulahop. > One example use would be a 'Facebook' activity which is simply a wrapper > around Browse which launches into Facebook. Same goes for the (deprecated) > Gmail activity, etc. Totally, and with PyXPCOM we could do interesting customizations for integrating that web app further with Sugar. Regards, Tomeu > Once we have the web activity framework inside Sugar, it would be simpler to > extend this to adding web (or Python!) "widgets" aka KDE4, OSX and Google > Desktop to Sugar. > Cheers, > Wade > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:12, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Building a website for kids seems like a great idea to me. An online >> >> extension of the Sugar interface could foster interaction between >> >> Sugarized schools in a country and even beyond borders. The commitment >> >> of choosing a username is not major for an existing Sugar user. And, >> >> it could provide curious grownups with a (partial) idea of the Sugar >> >> experience. >> > >> > This remembers me something that has been in the back of my mind since >> > FOSDEM, when Patrick Sinz showed me the custom UI that they have >> > designed for the Gdium. >> > >> > They use gdesklets to display some widgets in the screen that relate >> > to some online activity of the user. Those desklets can display info >> > from facebook, gmail, rss feeds of all kinds, etc. The idea being (as >> > I understood it) that the gdium is not only the physical device on the >> > hands of the user, but also a medium through which sync a global, >> > virtual identity with the local, real identity of the user. Of course >> > this assumes an internet connection of some reliability. >> > >> > This may be related to a global "bulletin board", concept so often >> > discussed but still so far from being implemented: >> > >> > >> > http://sugarlabs.org/go/DesignTeam/Human_Interface_Guidelines/The_Laptop_Experience/Bulletin_Boards >> > >> > What do people think? Accessing, caching and displaying some online >> > content inside the Sugar shell instead of only inside Browse seem like >> > an idea worth discussing? >> >> Seems like a good idea. >> >> Perhaps we should start a separate thread for this discussion: >> building a kids website and/or making Sugar shell more web-friendly >> are very different problems from the problem of reaching out to >> parents and teachers. >> >> -walter >> >> -- >> Walter Bender >> Sugar Labs >> http://www.sugarlabs.org >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
