Sugar

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For the category Sugar, see Category:Sugar.

About

Application developers on the OLPC will mostly be working with Python, the GTK GUI and the GECKO HTML engine. This combination is called Sugar.

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

Sugar running on Fedora Core

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Sugar is currently under heavy development.

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 sugar-jhbuild

git clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild

• Build sugar and his dependecies

cd sugar-jhbuild
./sugar-jhbuild

• Run sugar

sugar-jhbuild run

Note that sugar-jhbuild is still in early development. In particular, dependencies detection will be improved. It needs a lot of testing, so give it a try and report issues!

Source repositories

• Sugar source repository
• Artwork source repository

Distribution specific

• Suse instructions can be found at Sugar Setup on SUSE
• Using sugar-jhbuild on Ubuntu Linux

Milestones

Demo 1 - Seven Country Task Force Meeting, May 23rd 2006

Demo 2 - GUADEC, June 24th 2006

Design Reviews

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
• Marc Eisenstadt's comments on the environment with some links to other similar projects.
• UI mockups for the OLPC are found here.