[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:  CTest
Component:  distro  |   Resolution:       
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Comment (by jg):

 Sun's Java *may* become a free platform later this spring; we are
 certainly rooting for this completion. As is, Sun's J2SE is a 70 megabyte
 monolithic beast, most of which are jar files, and therefore compressed.

 Alternatives such as Harmony are not yet complete as far as we can tell;
 it looks like a very much better more modular set of libraries, but we
 don't know of a free jvm we can get to use with that library stack, though
 we investigated at least somewhat recently.

 A problem is it isn't very suitable for rapid prototyping, or kids seeing
 how their system works.

 And we're perfectly happy if others work on alternative UI's: we're
 focused on the young children for which conventional systems work badly.

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