[Sugar-devel] [RELEASE] Labyrinth-5

[Aleksey Lim]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:33:06AM +0000, Aleksey Lim wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 09:44:33AM +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > On 11 Apr 2009, at 06:48, Michael Stone wrote:
> > 
> > >> P.S. One notable bug for XO 8.2 distro users, is that adding images
> > >> from the Journal is currently broken (bumping into rainbow), adding
> > >> images works fine on sugar-jhbuild and should be fine on Soas distros
> > >> and xo-rawhide (though I haven't tested there just yet).
> > >
> > > Gary,
> > >
> > > Could you please send me a link to a ticket with logs?
> > 
> > Sorry if I wasn't clear, it's not a Rainbow bug, but an issue I need  
> > to fix in Labyrinth. I had a few early passes at fixing Journal image  
> > import integration but not quite there yet. Basically the issue is  
> > that Labyrinths image loading code is buried deep down in multiple  
> > levels of class and/or Python modules, so I don't have obvious access  
> > to the various Activity name spaces for knowing where is safe to save.
> > 
> > Line 51 if you want a quick peek:
> > 	http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/labyrinth/repos/mainline/blobs/master/src/ImageThought.py
> 
> looks like rainbow prevents activity to save files to its(activity) own
> instance directory: os.path.join(get_activity_root(), 'tmp'...

(just a joke)

In my mind using rainbow is like using cannons to shot sparrows
more relevant weapon is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot :D

-- 
Aleksey