Sascha silbe

Please see my homepage for contact information. You can also send me emails to my sugarlabs.org account (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
  • split out the Journal
    • let user "bless" an activity to provide the special services (switch to details view)
  • split out the Frame
  • activity.info -> .desktop, activity and non-activity .desktop launcher on home screen
• Replace copy of gnome-session with config files for and dependency on latest gnome-session (add link to Gnome bugzilla ticket)
• Version support
  • eventually integrated with in-activity Undo/Redo
• Rainbow
  • run each activity / application in a separate session, identifiable and killable from the Frame
• gpg-agent and/or gnome-keyring
  • in-Frame pinentry, highlighting the activity (isolated session) that requested the operation