Sugar Architecture/API
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| Table of Contents | ||||||||||||||
| API Introduction | ||||||||||||||
| Third Party Packages | GTK | Cairo | Hippo | D-Bus | ||||||||||
| Sugar Packs | Library Packs | Shell Packages | Service Packages | Activity APIs | ||||||||||
Sugar is built in python with a variety of open source packages. Programing in the sugar environment requires a basic understanding of both the Sugar User Interface, supporting third party packages, and built in sugar packages.
Traditional software packages are built against Application Program Intefaces. Sugar runs Activities instead of applications, but from a developers point of view, it's the same thing.
Third Party Packages
- GTK
- Cairo
- Hippo
- D-BUS
Sugar Packages
Sugar Library Packages
Many Sugar Library packages reside in /usr/lib/python*/site-packages/sugar
Modules:
- TracebackUtils
- emulator
- env
- logger
- profile
- simulator
- util
Subpackages:
- sugar.activity
- sugar.chat
- sugar.clipboard
- sugar.datastore
- sugar.graphics
- sugar.p2p
- sugar.presence
Package sugar.shell
Most of the Human Interface is implemented in the sugar shell packages located in /usr/share/sugar/shell
Modules:
Subpackages: View Model
Package sugar.services
Various services are provided in /usr/share/sugar/services
Modules:
Subpackages: