[Debian-olpc-devel] sugar 0.86 for Debian Edu lenny?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 13:02, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> wrote:
> [Holger Levsen]
>> This would increase the (ease of) availability of those packages and
>> that new UI concept, while it shouldnt mean any additional risk and
>> little burden for Debian Edu, as the packages are indepent of the
>> "normal" Debian Edu UI and since we can rely on the fine work of
>> their maintainers.
>
> One problem I experienced with the old packages, is that there is no
> way to select sugar as a desktop when logging in using kdm, and it is
> not possible to select sugar as a replacement desktop manager the way
> one can select between gdm and kdm.  This make it hard to get the
> sugar desktop started after installation.  Are these issues fixed?
> How are users supposed to get sugar started after installation now?
>
> If we upgrade the sugar packages, I expect we will need to update the
> education-sugar tasks as well.

Some distributions ship a .desktop file that adds Sugar to the
desktops option in gdm (and I guess in kdm). I'm not 100% sure if it
is present in the debian packages, Jonas could confirm.

We don't have a display manager of our own, but anyone standards
compliant should work with Sugar.

Regards,

Tomeu

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