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[[Sugar]] is the core of the [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines|OLPC Human Interface]]. Its goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.
[[Sugar]] is the core of the [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines|OLPC Human Interface]]. Its goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.


[[Image:Sugar.png|350px|thumb|none|An early version of Sugar running on Fedora Core]]
[[Image:Sugar.png|350px|thumb|none|Sugar running on Fedora]]


==Download==
==Download==

Revision as of 13:10, 6 February 2007


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For the category Sugar, see Category:Sugar.

About

Sugar is the core of the OLPC Human Interface. Its goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.

Sugar running on Fedora

Download

Sugar is currently under heavy development, and is meant to be used by developers. There are no binary packages yet available. The easiest way to build Sugar from sources is to use sugar-jhbuild.

Distribution specific instructions

Main article: Setting Up a Sugar Development Environment on *IX OSes

Distribution specific instructions that will help you to install pre-requisite binary packages:

See also: Sugar on Windows, Sugar on MacOS X

Source repositories

Images

  • See "OS images for emulation" for running Sugar as part of an emulated OS image, for use with QEMU or VMware Player.

Hacking

Marco wrote a quick tutorial on how to make your own Sugar Activity. Dan has some docs up on the Presence Service DBus API. There is also a page that describes Activity Bundles. You can also get some information about measuring the Sugar Performance.

Sugar User Instructions

A basic page explaining how to get started using the Sugar interface can be found here.

Milestones

Demo 1 - Seven Country Task Force Meeting, May 23rd 2006
Demo 2 - GUADEC, June 24th 2006

Design Reviews

Design Review 2 - Notes & Mockups

Architecture Reviews

See also

External Links

[[Category:Developers]