Sugar Architecture

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

• Human Interface guidelines
• Activity Bundles
• Sugar Icon Format
• Activity Protocol

API

• Sugar APIs
• Presence Service DBus API
• Low-level Activity 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)

Links and references

Python Documentation