Talk:Sugar (desktop environment)

Latest comment: 8 years ago by Tenason in topic Inappropriate edits by project leader

Interpreted? edit

Why is is stressed that Python is interpreted in the intro? Python can be compiled, and it probably is being compiled here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.209.32.59 (talk) 22:30, 13 July 2008 (UTC)Reply

The stress on interpreted is that it facilitates end-user modification. --Walter.bender (talk) 20:49, 18 March 2009 (UTC)Reply

Updated screenshot of Sugar edit

The new stable build of Sugar looks a bit different, and can be used from http://wiki.laptop.org/images/c/c3/542-homeview.png . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.22.204.169 (talk) 01:49, August 25, 2007 (UTC)

Performance edit

Performance is not as much of a design feature as much as an implementation issue. OTOH, "Presence" is a design feature that is arguably unique to desktop environments: "The presence of other people is always present in the Sugar interface: collaboration is a first-order experience. Students and teachers engage in a dialog with each other, support each other, critique each other, and share ideas." [1] --Walter.bender (talk) 20:13, 26 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Portal:Free software selected article: Sugar edit

Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was LessTif - a really old toolkit for replacing a popular non-free software package for making graphical applications.

For other interesting free software articles, you can take a look at the archive of PFS's selectees. Gronky (talk) 02:11, 15 October 2008 (UTC)Reply

Time passes and the selectee has moved on to R (programming language) - a GNU package for statistical computing that's gaining ground.[2] Gronky (talk) 02:18, 8 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Origin of Name? edit

Where did the name come from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.220.129 (talk) 22:29, 26 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

It was an internal working name conceived by the Red Hat team (Marco Gritti, as I recall) and it just stuck. --Walter.bender (talk) 21:44, 18 December 2009 (UTC)Reply
Syntactic sugar is a computer science term that refers to syntax within a programming language that is designed to make things easier to read or to express, while alternative ways of expressing them exist. This is the origin of the Scheme extension, Sugar, a front end to the Lisp reader. --FGrose (talk) 15:41, 21 August 2011 (UTC)Reply

My edits are not showing? edit

Info box not showing reliese dates maybe it's a temporary thing

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?? --Mkouklis (talk) 21:51, 19 May 2012 (UTC)Reply

Inappropriate edits by project leader edit

In case walter.bender is not familiar with wikipedia guidelines it is inappropriate for someone to edit the page about their own project to put it in a more flattering light. This is especially true when referring to their own work as a citation.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tenason (talkcontribs) 13:25, 23 May 2015 (UTC)Reply