Sugar

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Sugar is the core of the OLPC Python Environment. It's goal is to turn the Laptop into a fun, easy to use, social experience that promotes sharing and learning.

Download

Sugar is currently under heavy development.

Source repositories

• Sugar source repository
• Artwork source repository

Build from sources

Sugar is composed of a few modules, and depends on xulrunner, which is not yet packaged by distributions. The easier way to build it from sources is to use jhbuild,

• Check out jhbuild from GNOME cvs

$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome login
Logging in to :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:2401/cvs/gnome
CVS password: <press enter>
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome checkout jhbuild

• Install it

$ cd jhbuild
$ make
$ make install

• Create a .jhbuildrc file in your home directoy. Use sugar.jhbuildrc as a template
• Build sugar and his dependencies

jhbuild -m http://gnome.org/~marco/sugar.modules build sugar 

• Run sugar

jhbuild run sugar

Distribution specific

• Suse instructions can be found at Sugar Setup on SUSE

Milestones

Notes, to-do lists, ideas, etc. for Sugar development are kept on the wiki.

• Sugar Demo #1: to-do list - Target: Seven Country Task Force Meeting, May 23rd 2006 (COMPLETE)
• Sugar Demo #2: to-do list - Target: GUADEC, June 24th 2006
• Sugar Design Review #2: Notes & Mockups

External Links

• Screenshots here: http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2006/05/001414.php
• Some notes on Sugar: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=200
• Notes on Sugar and Maemo project similarities
• Marc Eisenstadt's comments on the environment with some links to other similar projects.
• UI mockups for the OLPC are found here.