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== Potential ==
== Potential ==
Sweets has the potential to allow Sugar to run on to any GNOME machine at the touch of a button.  
Sweets has the potential to allow Sugar to run on to any GNOME machine at the touch of a button.  
See [http://www.packagekit.org/index.html packagekit home page] for details.
Sugar delivered in this way gives users and developers a Sugar environment on one desktop, and simultaneously their familiar GNOME environment on another, or the Sugar environment could be isolated under, say, a "child" username.


[http://www.packagekit.org/index.html The packagekit home page] expands on this.
Sugar delivered in this way gives users and developers a Sugar environment on one desktop, and simultaneously their familiar GNOME environment on another. Sugar can be switched on and off with ease.
Additionally the Sugar environment can be isolated under the profile of another username.


== Useful pages ==
== Useful pages ==
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<span style="background:#ffccfe;">[[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging|Sweets Packaging]]</span>,This guide describes how to prepare software projects for sweets.
<span style="background:#ffccfe;">[[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Packaging|Sweets Packaging]]</span>,This guide describes how to prepare software projects for sweets.
<span style="background:#cce5ff;">[[Platform Team/Glossary|Sweets glossary]]</span> Some useful terms.


This guide describes how to run Sugar using Sugar via sweets
This guide describes how to run Sugar using Sugar via sweets
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<span style="background:#ffe6cc;">[[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Sweets Usage]].</span>
<span style="background:#ffe6cc;">[[Platform_Team/Guide/Sweets_Usage|Sweets Usage]].</span>


<span style="background:#cce5ff;">[[Platform_Team/Harmonic_Distribution|Harmonic_Distribution]]</span> is a systems approach to provide all  software tools.
<span style="background:#cce5ff;">[[Platform Team/Glossary|Sweets glossary]]</span> Some useful terms.
 
<span style="background:#cce5ff;">[[Platform_Team/Harmonic_Distribution|Harmonic Distribution]]</span> is a systems approach to provide all  software tools.


This page, and all its sub-pages, covers implementation of
This page, and all its sub-pages, covers implementation of