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| − | Please see [http://sascha.silbe.org my homepage] for contact information. You can also send | + | Please see [http://sascha.silbe.org my homepage] for contact information. You can also send emails to my sugarlabs.org and activitycentral.com accounts (silbe@). |
On FreeNode and OFTC my IRC nick is silbe. | On FreeNode and OFTC my IRC nick is silbe. | ||
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*** replacing a single (or multiple) zoom level(s) with alternative implementations possible | *** replacing a single (or multiple) zoom level(s) with alternative implementations possible | ||
*** bugs in one zoom level don't affect the others | *** bugs in one zoom level don't affect the others | ||
| + | *** shared UI framework uses GTK instead of HippoCanvas, icon view allows Neighbourhood-like searching and list view allows Home View-like searching | ||
** split out the Journal | ** split out the Journal | ||
| − | *** let user "bless" an activity to provide the special services (switch to | + | *** let user "bless" an activity to provide the special services (switch to Details View, Object Chooser) |
** split out the Frame | ** split out the Frame | ||
** activity.info -> .desktop, activity and non-activity .desktop launcher on home screen | ** activity.info -> .desktop, activity and non-activity .desktop launcher on home screen | ||
| − | * Replace copy of gnome-session with | + | ** use XDG start-up notification instead of custom protocol |
| + | * Rainbow | ||
| + | ** run each activity / application in a separate session, identifiable and killable from the Frame | ||
| + | *** show "activity start failed" screen if all processes finished (rainbow-run returns) before start-up notification has indicated the activity is running | ||
| + | *** if start-up notification times out, show "activity start failed" screen with option to wait a bit longer or abort | ||
| + | *** kill remaining processes on failure (timeout) | ||
| + | *** keep activities in Frame until all processes have exited | ||
| + | *** add option to kill session (i.e. all remaining processes) to Frame | ||
| + | ** "legacy sessions": start XDG applications in a session as describe above | ||
| + | *** full X session including window manager, using VNC | ||
| + | *** replace GTK file chooser dialog with Object Chooser invocation | ||
| + | *** set $HOME to temporary directory, save & restore the contents on Stop resp. resume | ||
| + | *** kills off window manager and "standard" daemons (e.g. gconf) after application returned | ||
| + | * Replace copy of gnome-session with configuration files for and dependency on latest gnome-session (add link to Gnome bugzilla ticket) | ||
* Version support | * Version support | ||
** eventually integrated with in-activity Undo/Redo | ** eventually integrated with in-activity Undo/Redo | ||
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* gpg-agent and/or gnome-keyring | * gpg-agent and/or gnome-keyring | ||
| − | ** in-Frame pinentry, highlighting the activity (isolated session) that requested the operation | + | ** in-Frame pinentry (allow/deny request, password optional) highlighting the activity (isolated session) that requested the operation |
| + | ** automatic "log-in" to (SL, XS) web sites using client "certificate" (server extracts public key and uses it for identification/authentication, supports multiple keys per account) | ||
| + | * Telepathy client changes | ||
| + | ** interoperability with non-Sugar Telepathy clients | ||
| + | ** Account Manager (blessed activity or control panel section) | ||
| + | *** Salut account added by default, but deactivatable | ||
| + | *** not sure how exactly to handle it, but we should support registering to multiple XSs and require only a single UI interaction for doing so (add Jabber account automatically, but deactivatable like all others) | ||
Revision as of 06:15, 24 January 2011
Please see my homepage for contact information. You can also send emails to my sugarlabs.org and activitycentral.com accounts (silbe@). On FreeNode and OFTC my IRC nick is silbe.
- Country
- Germany
- Timezone
- CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2)
Medium to long term Sugar plans
The goals
- Make it hard to loose work accidentally
- Make it safe to run potentially untrusted or buggy code
- Make Sugar easier and better to customise by users so they "feel at home" and work more efficiently
- Attract developers
- Increase interoperability with non-Sugar systems and parts thereof
- Accessibility
- real Single Sign On
The means
- Modularise Sugar core so users / developers can mix-and-match
- split the "zoom levels" into separate modules
- on low memory systems (XO-1) a single executable handles all zoom levels by default
- on all other systems there are separate executables
- replacing a single (or multiple) zoom level(s) with alternative implementations possible
- bugs in one zoom level don't affect the others
- shared UI framework uses GTK instead of HippoCanvas, icon view allows Neighbourhood-like searching and list view allows Home View-like searching
- split out the Journal
- let user "bless" an activity to provide the special services (switch to Details View, Object Chooser)
- split out the Frame
- activity.info -> .desktop, activity and non-activity .desktop launcher on home screen
- use XDG start-up notification instead of custom protocol
- split the "zoom levels" into separate modules
- Rainbow
- run each activity / application in a separate session, identifiable and killable from the Frame
- show "activity start failed" screen if all processes finished (rainbow-run returns) before start-up notification has indicated the activity is running
- if start-up notification times out, show "activity start failed" screen with option to wait a bit longer or abort
- kill remaining processes on failure (timeout)
- keep activities in Frame until all processes have exited
- add option to kill session (i.e. all remaining processes) to Frame
- "legacy sessions": start XDG applications in a session as describe above
- full X session including window manager, using VNC
- replace GTK file chooser dialog with Object Chooser invocation
- set $HOME to temporary directory, save & restore the contents on Stop resp. resume
- kills off window manager and "standard" daemons (e.g. gconf) after application returned
- run each activity / application in a separate session, identifiable and killable from the Frame
- Replace copy of gnome-session with configuration files for and dependency on latest gnome-session (add link to Gnome bugzilla ticket)
- Version support
- eventually integrated with in-activity Undo/Redo
- gpg-agent and/or gnome-keyring
- in-Frame pinentry (allow/deny request, password optional) highlighting the activity (isolated session) that requested the operation
- automatic "log-in" to (SL, XS) web sites using client "certificate" (server extracts public key and uses it for identification/authentication, supports multiple keys per account)
- Telepathy client changes
- interoperability with non-Sugar Telepathy clients
- Account Manager (blessed activity or control panel section)
- Salut account added by default, but deactivatable
- not sure how exactly to handle it, but we should support registering to multiple XSs and require only a single UI interaction for doing so (add Jabber account automatically, but deactivatable like all others)