[sorry about the late reply] On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Brendan R. Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On larger installations, schools will want sugar to integrate with there >> existing file and print servers, as well as some centralized administration >> of the sugar interface. Ideally, the journal and datastore would be stored >> on the file server in such a way as to allow teachers to access the saved >> activities from a normal Windows or Linux computer. > > The next generation of the Journal will have much better POSIX > compatibility, which should help this use case. Even with the current > implementation though, I think it's possible to display the journal > contents through a web server, that people could browse from a > Windows/Linux computer. (Tomeu, in cc, should have more details about > this.)
Yes, in the last stable Sugar release, files in the journal are stored along a JSON file that contains all its metadata (title, icon, tags, description, etc). It would be quite simple for the server to contain a small webapp that reads the metadata and presents a nice interface for browsing and accessing all the user's work. I understand that OLPC's Marting Langhoff has already done some related work on the XS, for accessing the backups of XOs via a web interface running on the XS (XO Server). >> Also, local media attached to thin client may pose a challenge, as the >> normal ways to search for and mount media are not available. > > Can you elaborate on this? I'm not sure to understand what's the use > case exactly. Yes, if the journal/DS is really running on the server, we cannot listen for notifications about devices plugged-in in the same way as on a laptop. AFAIK, Sugar is in exactly in the same position as GNOME here. In fact, the journal uses the same mechanism as GNOME's Nautilus, so a solution that worked for one should work for the other. >> We are very excited about the possibilities that sugar provides. We look >> forward to contributing to this project, and we are interested in your >> thoughts about these issues. > > I'm excited as well! Please keep posting us about any question or idea > you come up with it. Either through the mailing list, the irc channel > or the weekly meetings! Same here, keep them coming! Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
