Scope

Target Environment

Sugar Desktop Environment, Sugar on XOs

Action Items

Tasks to develop this activity (at high level, these can be broken down into several tasks):

• Identify the requirements, features to design and implement.

• Design the User Interface carefully by understanding the GTK+ framework, PyGTK and how Sugar shell understands it.

• Identify and understand the components/widgets required to develop this activity.

• Develop the components under the light of Sugar Human Interface Guidelines.

• Code and test unit functionality like individual components and features as whole, i.e., design mode, source mode and publish mode.( Unit testing and integration testing)

  • Develop Element Toolbox

  • Develop properties windows. Write Callback functions to handle events on Items listed in Element toolbox.

  • Develop Muti-tabbed Canvas where user can simultaneously open several web project entities like web page, script file, image,etc.

  • Develop Sugar Toolbar with button for design mode, source mode and publish mode

  • Write python class to handle canvas entities and events. like opening the properties windows when element is clicked on web page; Save page on hard disk, read page or file from disk

  • Rendering component that will render entities like image, page, script onto canvas.

  • Develop small web server component to deploy developed web site or web application

    • ability to listen on a port.

    • serve the web site or web application as a whole or requested resource like image or web service.

  • Write functionality to save and load the HTML, JavaScript files.

  • The future work can include support for HTML 5 widgets. Once we are ready with base version of this Activity we can definitely add these.

  • Support for deployment to server can be provided where user can select server to FTP files created through this activity.

  • Support to allow multiple users working on same web project(or website)- editing different pages or parts to complete it in collective manner- This will enhance teamwork and encourage collective working environment.

  • To make it more interesting, we can include a small server component developed in previous step that will serve the web pages created through this activity. Children can then directly host the pages by hitting a button in this activity.

• Share the activity for testing among developers, testers in the community.

• Once the activity is reviewed it can be hosted under Sugar Activities.