Customizing OLPC system

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpg at redhat.com
Mon Feb 26 09:14:10 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:54 -0300, "João Bosco A. Pereira Filho" wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>     I am studing OLPC laptop to the brazilian government and I have some 
> doubts about customizing it's system.
> 

Hello,

there is a section of the HIG which cover exactly this:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Human_Interface_Guidelines/Activities/Activity_Bundles#Obtaining_Activity_Bundles

>     Is it possible to install an activity trough the web? This could be 
> a very interesting way to install new activities developed specially for 
> brazilian kids. I think the idea here is just to click on a link and the 
> activity installs automatically. No command line scripts.

I think we should definitely allow this for signed bundles. It would be
really easy to implement it on the top of the existing Sugar framework
and it's probably the first bundle installation UI that we will
implement. 

Marco




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