On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:58:17AM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: >>Tomeu Vizoso writes:
>>> I think it's very important if we want to keep pushing Sugar that we >>> distinguish between design decisions and bugs and unimplemented >>> features. If we bring down good design ideas not by themselves but >>> because of its implementation status, we risk ending up with nothing >>> that brings new value compared to existing desktops. >> >>You say that like it would be a bad thing. The existing desktops >>are at least time-tested. Learning to deal with the common features >>of modern desktop systems is very valuable for children. > > I flat out disagree that Sugar should be a learning experience towards > using alternative user interfaces. > > In that mindset we should mimic Word, Excel and the Windows desktop, not > for the quality of their interface designs, but simply because they are > expremely popular so getting acquainted to them is "very valuable for > children". To the extent that there are common features that are highly unlikely to change across versions or even OSes, definitely. MacOS System 6, MacOS X, OS/2 Warp, and Windows Vista have certain basic features in common. It's a safe bet to say that most of these features will remain in the computers of 2017. _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel