On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Patrick Dubroy wrote: > | On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > |> > Another option would be to create a version of Sugar that appeals to > |> > programmers. But I can't imagine creating such a version that > wouldn't > |> > require a lot of programming resources. > | > | So here's another question: are any of the Sugar developers using it > | as their desktop shell? I was thinking of giving that try. If all the > | Sugar developer were eating their own dogfood, I'll bet you'd get a > | programmer-friendly system in a hurry. In fact, I don't see why it > | would be considered to be programmer-friendly already -- it's got > | terminal and a text editor, what more do you need? ;-) > > Yes: I take my XO with me to class and take notes in Write. I used to > take my Thinkpad with me everywhere; now it never leaves my desk. I run > unmodified Joyride builds on my XO, and I find the interface to be both > superb and useful. I recently developed the DOSConsole activity solely on > the XO itself, not because I was trying to prove any point but because it > was the most convenient way.
I'm curious to know what your list of missing features and bugs looks like. > No: On my desktop I run in Xinerama with two different-sized LCDs. > Together, they have about 8 times the area of an XO screen. Sugar will > never make sense for that hardware without a serious redesign. On the > other hand, running individual activities in windows managed by Metacity > would probably work fine. Agreed. > | Anyhow, speaking as someone who has only very recently gotten involved > | with the project, I can say that the Sugar interface was one of the > | most appealing things to me. I'm sure there are other potential > | contributors out there who would be attracted for the same reasons. > > Me too. The project was vaguely interesting until I ran Sugar in Qemu, at > which point it became compelling. Nice to hear that, please keep giving your feedback and suggestions. Thanks, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel