Sugar me!
By csant. Tuesday, 27. February 2007, 00:05:19
Work on the OLPC XO is progressing - and we got past one of the biggest hurdles so far: integration into the Sugar environment.
The CERTI Foundation, a R&D foundation in Brazil that is testing the OLPC's XO for the Brazilian government, developed all the necessary activity files - a great thanks from the Opera team for the effort João Bosco A. Pereira Filho and his team have put into helping the integration work.
If you want to play with the Opera activity, you'll have to download the activity files and install them according to the instructions:
Everything works fine - except for quitting Opera
… We are currently looking into this new issue… And there is more work going on
As always, your feedback is welcome!
And while you are waiting for a new build, enjoy here some screenshots of Opera running in the Sugar environment
The CERTI Foundation, a R&D foundation in Brazil that is testing the OLPC's XO for the Brazilian government, developed all the necessary activity files - a great thanks from the Opera team for the effort João Bosco A. Pereira Filho and his team have put into helping the integration work.
If you want to play with the Opera activity, you'll have to download the activity files and install them according to the instructions:
cd /usr/share/activities wget http://people.opera.com/howcome/2007/olpc/opera-activity.tar.gz tar xvzf opera-activity.tar.gz
Everything works fine - except for quitting Opera
And while you are waiting for a new build, enjoy here some screenshots of Opera running in the Sugar environment

By Investor, # 27. February 2007, 00:12:21
Can't for the next release!
By fearphage, # 27. February 2007, 00:22:34
BTW - why should anyone quit Opera. Let it fly
By slegg, # 27. February 2007, 00:25:58
By strat89, # 27. February 2007, 00:29:04
i am sorry, it is realy beautiful
but what is it ?
does it work on linux with gnome (you know sugar may makes me much more fat)
anyway i will try it now
that worth respect, i like honesty
sometimes it happens when wou want to try the close button
i am sorry guys for all troubles i made last post, i hope that you will forgive me
By Khaled Khalil, # 27. February 2007, 00:53:55
Screenshots
Tks
By andresruiz, # 27. February 2007, 01:54:37
Are you guys going to leave out the integrated Google search field, or is Opera Software still trying to decide which search engine to integrate?
By GT500, # 27. February 2007, 03:13:31
I'm a Brazilian user
By saulob, # 27. February 2007, 03:20:34
By dantesoft, # 27. February 2007, 05:25:33
I am brazilian and the OLPC XO is really in test in some public schools here.
Sometime ago you posted about an Opera version that was being prepared for the OLPC project. Since I knew the laptops were being tested here I kept wondering if they were gonna see Opera someday. And now you tell me the brazilian guys here were directly cooperating with the Opera devs to make it work.. this is the best news ever!
I'm happy to see that the brazilians involved in such a serious project as the OLPC were smart enough to choose Opera. Unfortunately, our sites and magazines dedicated to computers seem to ignore the existence of Opera when the subject is "browsers", all they do is talk about IE and spread the fake facts about how FF revolutionized the web with things like tabbed browsing (which Opera already had years before).
I see this as a first step towards the South American Opera Domination! Now you guys make sure the name OPERA will be stamped somewhere in that browser. Cause in the future those kids that used the OLPC are gonna have their own desktop computers, and when they need a browser they'll remember that name!
By danielcs, # 27. February 2007, 06:16:06
By denq, # 27. February 2007, 07:01:31
By xErath, # 27. February 2007, 08:34:22
By Zybex, # 27. February 2007, 08:38:34
By DjiXas, # 27. February 2007, 12:20:16
1. Quit Opera ;P
2. Close the activity
The problem is that to quit Opera in just one operation you need to modify Opera to send events for Sugar (through DBUS API).
I think this is not very hard to implement and Opera team will do it soon.
By joaoboscoapf, # 27. February 2007, 13:02:15
By Contrid, # 27. February 2007, 21:03:50
If that is the bug where it crashes the system, or 'stays in the task manager', needing you to close it from there, yes, that is a very big bug, for most people.....
By illiad, # 27. February 2007, 21:21:36
By csant, # 27. February 2007, 22:36:09
By operic, # 27. February 2007, 22:53:21
By samkline, # 27. February 2007, 23:53:58
By joaoboscoapf, # 28. February 2007, 01:16:38
By bildos, # 28. February 2007, 01:38:40
By vinodkk1, # 28. February 2007, 11:35:37
By haavard, # 28. February 2007, 15:00:21
By reisenderpro, # 25. March 2007, 04:45:43
I will make it simple! I am not a Linux user before getting my XO machine.
When will OPERA be a basic click and download Activity in the OLPC Sugar environment?
I already downloaded Opera, but have not been able to do it a 2nd time after my XO was remapped. How about a simple Memory Stick download for those machines?
Greg
By GregYohn, # 2. January 2008, 22:59:13
By chickamade, # 7. February 2008, 02:20:17