Activity Team/Sweetener
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Sweetener is a desktop framework which provides compatibility between Sugar and other Desktops. Does all the repetitive parts, for be more friendly with developers. It's divided in modules, they can be included in an activity for do a specific task.
Maintainers
Current Release
At the moment it hasn't got a stable release. Clone the GIT Repository and feel free to send patches, request merges or contact the maintainers.
Get started creating an activity
- Start a repository on Git
- Clone Sweetener
git clone git://git.sugarlabs.org/sweetener/sweetener.git
- Copy to your new activity directory the following files:
- Makefile
- activity.py
- canvas.py
- options.py
- info.py
- Optional, only if you want to get your activity working on other Linux desktops:
- application.py
- hello-integration (rename it to your activity name)
- Fill info.py with the information about the activity.
Key accelerators
| Stock Label | Key Accelerator on Sugar | Key accelerator on Linux desktops |
|---|---|---|
| Add | Ctrl + A | Ctrl + A |
| Fullscreen | Alt + Return | F11 |
| Normal Size | Ctrl + 0 | Ctrl + 0 |
| Remove | Shift + Del | Ctrl + R |
| Select Color | Ctrl + L | Ctrl + L |
| Zoom In | Ctrl + + | Ctrl + + |
| Zoom Out | Ctrl + - | Ctrl + - |
Activities using Sweetener
Gtk2 and Gtk3 Support
There are efforts to port Sweetener to Gtk3[1], but at the moment it isn't possible thanks to the upstream bug GNOME#652697.