Thanks for answering the roll call. And now, a question.

Jim Kronebusch jim at winonacotter.org
Wed Apr 18 17:41:30 UTC 2007


> You could think of Sugar as a desktop environment like KDE or GNOME
> (architecturally, it is sort of a cousin to GNOME).  There is more to
> it than that, but it'll do for starters.
> 
> It should be possible (in the future) to allow a student to chose
> whether to log into GNOME or Sugar on a LTSP terminal.  It also should
> be possible to allow them to run Sugar as an application within their
> regular GNOME session, in full screen or windowed mode.
> 
> Sugar is extensible through its own packaging system.
> 
> And it is certainly not flat; if it fails, it will be because they're
> trying to go too deep.

Thanks for the explanation, I thought of Sugar more as an OS and not just a window
manager.  Very cool.  Tom, maybe you could get Indiana on board and bring OLPC to the US :-)

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