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Sugar is a different desktop environment to what is normally used in Windows, Apple's OS X or other Linux operating systems. The first thing that a child sees, therefore, is not a hard disk or a trash can — it’s the other children in the “neighborhood.” Sugar's closest desktop metaphor is the Home view: where the user can see what Activities they are currently using and access the Journal, which acts as a history of usage and allows the user to access files they viewed or applications they ran previously.
Sugar is a different desktop environment to what is normally used in Windows, Apple's OS X or other Linux operating systems. The first thing that a child sees, therefore, is not a hard disk or a trash can — it’s the other children in the “neighborhood.” Sugar's closest desktop metaphor is the Home view: where the user can see what Activities they are currently using and access the Journal, which acts as a history of usage and allows the user to access files they viewed or applications they ran previously.
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====Changing the "XO Guy"====
To change the XO Guy, the symbol in the middle of the Home view (with applications opening around him/her), you have to follow a few steps.
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You fist have to make an icon image and save it as an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file with the name computer-xo.svg. Probably on your Mac or MS machine. There are instructions on how to do this on the OLPC wiki.
Next you copy computer-xo.svg to a USB or SD card.
Then you open the terminal and type the commands in to back-up the original icon and copy your new icon into the correct location.
1. You fist have to make an icon image and save it as an SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) file with the name computer-xo.svg. Probably on your Mac or MS machine. There are instructions on how to do this on the OLPC wiki.
Next you copy computer-xo.svg to a USB or SD card.
Then you open the terminal and type the commands in to back-up the original icon and copy your new icon into the correct location.
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===Using Activities===
===Using Activities===
Turn the volume down while the laptop is booting (i.e. before getting into Sugar).
Turn the volume down while the laptop is booting (i.e. before getting into Sugar).
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=Networking & Communications=
=Networking & Communications=