Sugar Architecture
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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
- Sugar APIs
- Presence Service DBus API
- Activity 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)