PC does not have 'view source' button

[mungewell]

Binary package hint: sugar

PC does not have a view source button, to provide a way of viewing the underlying source of a Sugar application. This is one important feature of the Sugar system.

A 'standard' button should be selected, documented and remapped (possibly using 'xmodmap').

Cheers,
Mungewell.

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 15:12, mungewell <email address hidden> wrote:

> PC does not have a view source button, to provide a way of viewing the
> underlying source of a Sugar application. This is one important feature
> of the Sugar system.

This is a functionality of the OLPC XO laptop, and is not a current
requirement OR feature in sugar itself, as far as I'm aware.

status confirmed
importance low

[mungewell (simon-mungewell)]

Sugar labs seem to think it's a large part of the Sugar interface.

From the FAQ:
http://sugarlabs.org/go/Community/FAQ#What_makes_Sugar_different_from_other_educational_software_platforms.3F
--
Sugar is based on Python, an interpreted language, allowing the direct appropriation of ideas: in whatever realm the learner is exploring—music, browsing, reading, writing, programming, graphics, etc.—they are able to drill deeper; they are not going to hit a wall, since they can, at every level, engage in debugging both their personal expression and the very tools that they use for that expression
--

The key code required is 236 or the key XF86Start.

That said, there are bigger fish to fry....
Simon.

[Morgan Collett (morgan)]

Sugar 0.84 (hopefully what we will ship in Jaunty) will have a new view source hotkey mechanism, which will have alt-shift-v as an alternative keybinding.

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

status triaged
importance low