Documentation Team/User Manual

How To Use Sugar

Using the Interface

What is an "interface"?

A User Interface is defined by Wikipedia as "is the aggregate of means by which people—the users—interact with the system—a particular machine, device, computer program or other complex tools. The user interface provides means of:

   * Input, allowing the users to manipulate a system
   * Output, allowing the system to produce the effects of the users' manipulation."

So, the Sugar interface is the icons and words on the screen that you click on using the keyboard, mouse, or touchpad buttons.

Installing and Deleting Activities

• Using Terminal
• Sugar Activities
• Linux Applications
• Windows Applications

Sound Control

Disabling the bootup sound

Turn the volume down while the laptop is booting (i.e. before getting into Sugar).

Installing Sugar

• Installing Sugar (on various platforms)
• Sugar Instructions, booting and getting started with Sugar

Developing For Sugar

• Building the XO: Introducing Sugar - Red Hat Magazine 2007-02-23
• Build from sources, and get started.
• Read the human interaction guidelines
• Get an overview of the architecture
• Write your own activity
• Check out the code snippets library
• Understanding sugar code organization.
• See a list of Sugar activities and specifications.
• Sugar source repository
• Current trac tickets, sorted by category. The TODO list.
• Roadmap