[Sugar-devel] Bundling plugins with Browse

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>> On 09.12.2008, at 22:29, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 09.12.2008, at 18:49, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>>>>>> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-99.xo seems to be working for
>>>>>> me. Please test.
>>>>>> Attached is the patch which did the trick.
>>>>> Ugh. Why is it necessary to copy the plugin to $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT/
>>>>> data ? That would only make sense if it is supposed to be modified at
>>>>> runtime.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Do stuff placed in $SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT remain persistent across
>>>> reboots ? I seem to have troubles getting that (the file disappeared
>>>> after reboot)
>>>
>>> You misunderstood. Why copy at all? Why not run it from the bundle?
>>>
>>> Copying from the bundle is only necessary for e.g. default configuration
>>> files that the activity needs to be able to change later (because the bundle
>>> itself is read-only).
>>>
>>
>>
>> Ah, ok, I was blindly following cert8.db
>> http://dev.laptop.org/~sayamindu/Browse-101.xo follows your solution
>> and seems to work fine. Moreover, theoretically one can drop any
>> plugin in the plugin directory of Browse, and expect it to work.
>>
>> Everyone, please test this as much as possible. Also, how do I include
>> the source of the binaries (mozplugger, m4) in the Browse bundle ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sayamindu
>
> Does work fine. You can save the pdf once it is loaded. I guess we
> should add a palette (right mouse click on link) option to save the pdf
> directly - so you have both options.

Agreed - it would make sense to let users right click and save the PDF.
-sdg-


-- 
Sayamindu Dasgupta
[http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]