In order to install and run a sugar emulator on my computer, I had to install the default GNOME desktop by Ubuntu. Mostly because there are so many dependencies which are just assumed by sugar to be on the system already. I did try to run it in KDE, it started up but did not make any progress.
In case you didn't know, sugar is the desktop environment for OLPC , and it is quite a revolutionary break from the traditional desktop metaphor. One really interesting thing that happens is I can also log directly into Sugar from the KDM/GDM login prompt, and this allows me to see the fullscreen, as my laptop has a screen that is 1024X600 it doesn't quite fit the xephyr window fully onto the desktop. But that is all cool. I am hoping to be able to connect with my daughter's XO when it gets here soon.
In case you didn't know, sugar is the desktop environment for OLPC , and it is quite a revolutionary break from the traditional desktop metaphor. One really interesting thing that happens is I can also log directly into Sugar from the KDM/GDM login prompt, and this allows me to see the fullscreen, as my laptop has a screen that is 1024X600 it doesn't quite fit the xephyr window fully onto the desktop. But that is all cool. I am hoping to be able to connect with my daughter's XO when it gets here soon.
