Re: 9.1 Proposal: Compatibility with desktop applications

2008-10-26 Thread John Gilmore
I have to commend Marco for pursuing this initiative. I think the only hope for the long term survival of the innovations in Sugar is to port those innovations out into mass market Linux software. (Currently, nobody adopts XO innovations like shared browsers and word processors, or improved suppor

9.1 Proposal: Compatibility with desktop applications

2008-10-23 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
Two high level goals: * Make desktop applications run without modifications in the Sugar shell and integrate as much as possible with it. * Make activities run on a standard desktop, as long as the required services are installed. Problems we need to solve to make this possible: * Our icon class