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* [[HippoCanvas]]: Cairo drawing and UI layout widget |
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* [http://www.avahi.org/wiki/ProgrammingDocs Avahi] service discovery layer |
* [http://www.avahi.org/wiki/ProgrammingDocs Avahi] service discovery layer |
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* [http://cairographics.org/documentation Cairo] 2D graphics library ([http://cairographics.org/pycairo Python interface]) |
* [http://cairographics.org/documentation Cairo] 2D graphics library ([http://cairographics.org/pycairo Python interface]) |
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Revision as of 00:47, 10 March 2007
The Sugar Interface acts as the primary user interface for most children using an OLPC laptop. It runs as a graphical shell on top of a trimmed down implementation of Redhat's Fedora implementation of a Linux operating system. Python has been selected as the primary development language for sugar.
Specifications
API
- Presence Service DBus API
- HippoCanvas: Cairo drawing and UI layout widget
Third party packages
- Avahi service discovery layer
- Cairo 2D graphics library (Python interface)
- Pango text layout library (Python interface)
- GTK+ user interface (Python interface)
- D-Bus interprocess communications system (Python interface)