Talk:Sugar (desktop environment)

Interpreted?
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)


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

Updated screenshot of Sugar
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 Special:Contributions/ (talk)

Performance
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." --Walter.bender (talk) 20:13, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

Portal:Free software selected article: Sugar
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)


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

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


 * 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)

My edits are not showing?
Info box not showing reliese dates maybe it's a temporary thing | frequently updated = yes Template:Latest stable software release/Sugar (desktop environment) Template:Latest preview software release/Sugar (desktop environment) ?? --Mkouklis (talk) 21:51, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Inappropriate edits by project leader
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 (talk • contribs) 13:25, 23 May 2015 (UTC)