[Trac #1053] OLPC needs a usable GUI (i.e. not Sugar)

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#1053: OLPC needs a usable GUI (i.e. not Sugar)
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 Reporter:  gnu     |        Owner:  jg       
     Type:  defect  |       Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal  |    Milestone:  Untriaged
Component:  distro  |   Resolution:           
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Comment (by marco):

 > Yes, all this critics could be true or not..but in this case the
 children have the last word

 I couldn't agree more.

 >i have been able to perform some tests with children between 6 and 11
 years (in my country >Colombia) and they only complain about one thing.
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 >    Velocity of performance

 Thanks for the feedback, it's good to know what are the problems exposed
 by testing on the target users. And yeah, that's not surprising.
 Performance is clearly the usability "bottleneck" right now. We are
 working on it and I hope we will see improvements on this front soon.

 >I also think that one of sugar main purposes is to give the kids tools
 and
 >skills to have the capacity for run more complicated tasks like
 >programming (not necessarily to run Kde or Gnome..or menu-like
 >environments)

 +1

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