Sugar
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.
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 |
- Sugar demo 3 - in progress
Design Reviews
- Sugar design review 3 - in progress
Architecture Reviews
- Sugar architecture review 1 - in progress
See also
External Links
- Screenshots here: http://www.eschoolnews.com/eti/2006/05/001414.php
- Some notes on Sugar: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=200
- Marc Eisenstadt's comments on the environment with some links to other similar projects.
- UI mockups for the OLPC are found here.
- A video of Sugar running on QEMU here
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