Sugar (desktop environment)
Sugar is a free and open-source desktop environment designed for interactive learning by children. It was developed by SugarLabs. Developed as part of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project, Sugar was the default interface on OLPC XO-1 laptop computers. The OLPC XO-1.5 and later provided the option of either the Gnome or Sugar interfaces.
The Sugar "Home view" (v0.82) | |
| Developer(s) | Sugar Labs |
|---|---|
| Initial release | May 2006 |
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Python, PyGTK, GTK+ |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Available in | 25 languages |
| Type | Desktop environment |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | sugarlabs |
Sugar is available as a Live CD, as Live USB, and a package installable through several Linux distributions.
Unlike most other desktop environments, Sugar does not use the "desktop", "folder" and "window" metaphors. Instead, Sugar's default full-screen activities require users to focus on only one program at a time. Sugar implements a journal which automatically saves the user's running program session and allows them to later use an interface to pull up their past works by date, an activity used, or file type.