[IAEP] Allow running Sugar Activities outside Sugar

[Chris Leonard]

Sebastian,

This seems like a very elegant solution that provides greater flexibility
in invoking Sugar, very nice indeed.

cjl

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:57 AM, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
wrote:

> Hi friends,
>
> I've been wishing to be able to nicely run Activities from a regular
> desktop for a while.
>
> So I patched sugar-toolkit-gtk3 to allow for this (patch at
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/315 )
>
> The patch allows to run Activities by using the sugar-activity script.
> I've tested this in Gnome, XFCE and Sugar itself.
>
> In order to use it I created a small notification tray applet that allows
> to start activities and even invoke journal items:
> (the menu is coming from clicking on the Sugar Labs "S" Logo)
> View Source menu item will open the system file manager pointed to the
> Activity path.
>
> source at:
> https://github.com/icarito/sugar-launcher-applet
>
> This patch to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 does not affect operation under Sugar.
> Might we even consider bundling the applet with sugar?
>
> The reflection logic is to provide a path-to-adolescence without such a
> steep disconnect between Sugar and Gnome.
> Also as a help for developers to keep Activities in mind without need for
> an emulator.
>
> This is the result of scratching an old itch. I'll love to hear your
> comments!
> Also I created a Feature page at
> https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/FreeDesktop_integration
>
> Sugar on,
>
> Sebastian
>
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