Erik Garrison wrote: > However, it is unclear how hacking is > supposed to proceed within Sugar without some exposure to the underlying > filesystem.
Run Browse and you start with "OLPC Library". Click in the location field and you see file:///home/olpc/.library_pages/index.html. Any inquisitive child is going to start exploring and wind up looking at the source for Analyze.activity/analyze.py. (I don't know how hard it would be to add syntax highlighting to Mozilla's text rendering.) > Even if it is possible to do via the Terminal, we are not > making it easy for users to start by providing two incompatible views on > data. Yes. I can't even look in file:///home/olpc/.sugar I've had intermittent problems in the past where I'm unable to browse other directories, but this directory is hidden to Browse by design. Files? I think mankind is in the middle of a 25-year transition to versioned URIs. It's strange that viewing that source file isn't chock full of links. But I know of no O.S. that's figured it out (remember public_html directories and Microsoft's "View as Web folder"?) and meanwhile the Journal is an advance on a mere file system. There's no web server on the XO, so it's hard for it to figure out the URI'd future either. If I ruled the world the Journal would be reuse + extension of Firefox 3's Places feature. Places has the same history, tags, search, last viewed, description, etc.; it allows but does not require subfolders. That would be the start of the unification of browsing the web and your local work that's surely coming. Thanks for all you do. -- =S Page _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
