Hello all,<div><br></div><div>My feeling about Sugar is that while it is has many advantages as a standalone system for the purpose it was conceived (i.e. a kid friendly netbook), I don't see the clear benefit in having it included in Edubuntu out of the box.</div>
<div><br></div><div>From the user point of view, Sugar acts like an OS within the OS, and I see it causing more confusion than good.</div><div><br></div><div>One might argue that software such as GCompris have a somewhat comparable approach, but at least they do not deal with system related preferences and do not include software that is redundant with software already present on the system (browser, text editor, etc.).</div>
<div><br></div><div>And as it has been mentioned, the user can easily install Sugar by himself if it is needed.</div><div><br></div><div>What activities from Sugar do you see benefitting directly Edubuntu? It might be wiser to find a way to directly make these into standalone Linux packages (if it hasn't been done already). They would integrate better with the other applications and the OS that way, and it wouldn't create an unnecessary gap between the standard Linux applications and the Sugar activities.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Guillaume</div>