[sugar] Mini-Conference Proposal: Toolbars & Tabs (or lack thereof)

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Albert Cahalan <acahalan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eben Eliason writes:
>  > 1. Toolbar buttons use icons instead of text as an identifier.  Beyond

Just to throw another dog into this fight, I've recently been very
concerned with making legacy applications "work as well as possible"
in the sugar environment.  They will likely always be second-class
citizens, as they weren't originally designed for kids, may be overly
complex, etc, but it's clear that the limited developer resources at
OLPC don't have time to (for example) develop a full-fledged
kid-friendly video- and sound-editing application, yet that's the next
thing that kids want to do when given Record.  There are some very
nice programs out there in linux land, we'd like to make using them
reasonably *possible*.  Eventually, of course, we'd like to see a (for
example) inkscape port which emphasized UI simplicity,
kid-friendliness, and the rest of the Sugar guidelines, but at the
moment we're stuck using inkscape as is.

Could someone with some experience with GTK/Gnome themes comment
briefly on how reasonable it would be to create a theme to make legacy
applications look as much as possible like our "old" sugar and "new"
sugar proposal?
 --scott

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