Tutorials/Introduction to the Sugar Interface

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Sugar Creation Kit Getting Started - Explore Drag-Drop from 2nd USB

Introduction to the Sugar Interface

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  • A Booted Trisquel 5.0-sugar CD was used for these examples
Note these screen-shots were Drag-Dropped to a 2nd USB-stick
Copied from the USB to another Computer and uploaded to the Sugarlabs.wiki
Where it was inserted into this page
Note:For All Screen-shots:
Click on Screen-shot to enlarge it
Use your Browsers <== Back arrow to return

f3 Boot Screen

  • Sugar boots to this Screen:
It contains a circle of activities
and is reached with the f3 key
  • Click on Any of the Activities in the circle and the activity will start

Screenshot of f3 Drop-Down.png

On the top right bar are 2 icons
You are using the circular one
Click on the one with horizontal lines (The list view)

Screenshot of f3 list view.png

Click on Any of the Activities in the list and the activity will start.
Click on the circular figure on the top bar
You switch back to the f3 circular view
In the Center is the users XO figure
Hover over the XO figure and a Drop Down Box Appears

Screenshot of f3 Drop-Down.png

  • Select the "My Settings"
You switch to the :Control Panel"

Screenshot of Control Panel.png

Here you can click on each of the items to make changes to how Sugar Works
Like Language or Keyboard setting
You can explore them
To exit the control-panel hit the (X) or (check mark if it appears :it saves changes) in the frame bar right corner
  • Hit F3 key and you switch to the Jabber Network Neighborhood View

Screenshot of f1 Network-Neighborhood on jabber.png

You are the XO in the center.
Hover on it and the same drop-down menu will appear as in f3
All the other XO figures are other users on the jabber network
  • hit f3 and return to the main screen

TO Shutdown Sugar

Choose shutdown on the dropdown box

Screenshot of f3 Drop-Down.png

This is the end of this short introduction