while Canonical is working on rebasing Ubunto on Foresight, there is another change that will be welcomed by many:
Foresight decided to drop Gnome as its maindesktop, and will instead feature Sugar from sugarlabs.org. the interface is well known for its debut on the OLPC laptop, used by more than 500000 children around the world. since children are the most demanding customers, they are a good gauge on what makes an easy to use desktop. ken agreed that the sugar interface is intuitive, and even clumsy people can use it well. it may feel akward at first, but as ken says: "i know this seems weird for experienced users, but experts say it is easier for kids to use" and for adults too. myself, i have been using a sugar based olpc as my main workstation for some time now, and i am looking forward to be able to run foresight on this machine. while sugar is being integrated into foresight, you can get a prerelease from group-sugar-glucose=embee.rpath....@fl:2-devel there are no activities yet (just download them yourself from activities.sugarlabs.org) and some activities will not run because of missing dependencies. greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer working in china community.gotpike.org unix system- iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at open-steam.org administrator caudium.org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ _______________________________________________ Foresight-distro mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpath.org/mailman/listinfo/foresight-distro
