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Couldn’t have said it better. Why do they have to re-invent the interface instead of just picking something already in use?
Comment by John S. — November 25, 2006 @ 4:23 am
I have to agree, but not because the Sugar UI sucks, but because there was no reason whatsoever to change the default Gnome UI to anything else. Kids must learn to not also do their homework with computers, but also LEARN to use computers too to prepare them for a modern job in the future. And a way to do this is to actually let the kids to use a real word processor, a real browser, a real spreadsheet and a real chat app instead of apps wrapped in candy paper.
And if something on Gnome is not “too easy to use”, then FIX it.
That’s all I will say to these Red Hat hotshots who wrote Sugar.
Comment by Eugenia — November 25, 2006 @ 5:00 am
If you were to use standart GNOME, AbiWord, etc, etc, the hardware of the OLPC wouldn’t behave well at all… This is a stripped down version of GNOME, AbiWord, etc. This UI is for children not semi-geeks like you…
Comment by Pierre — November 25, 2006 @ 6:52 pm
I understand the computer isn’t powerfull enough to run a full blown version of Gnome with all the other apps like Abiword. But they could’ve used some smaller window manager like Xfce and kept a somewhat standard interface.
Comment by John S. — November 25, 2006 @ 8:25 pm
Remember who is designing this stuff. Exactly, Red Hat sponsored GNOME devs. What kind of message would they send out if they did not use (a slimmed-down version of) GNOME?
Comment by Administrator — November 25, 2006 @ 8:28 pm
Pierre, John, you are wrong. Below the shiny Sugar interface, there IS gnome running. And their “apps” are simply modified versions of Abiword and Gaim. It’s the SAME apps, same infrastructure, with an ADDITIONAL layer of Sugar. In other words, it’s possibly more slow now than it would have been with just Gnome.
Comment by Eugenia — November 25, 2006 @ 8:35 pm