[Sugar-devel] [Karma] Re: svg and png for subjects in chakra

[Bryan Berry]

On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 17:11 -0500, Felipe López Toledo wrote:
> >> Ideally, I would like to just drop the lesson folder under a specific
> >> place (with a config file) and then everything will be done: links,
> >> put the lesson on the correct grade, include the lesson on the
> >> necessary menus, etc..
> >> but that's not possible without using a server side solution, maybe
> >> using Narwhal or Rhino... but, please note that those tools are server
> >> side.
> >
> > Yeah, as previously mentioned we gotta figure out a way of how to get from a
> > random collection of lessons to a single package with a corresponding Chakra
> > and everything...
> > All suggestions are more than welcome!
> ok,
> 
> Bryan has started a karma utility:
> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Karma/Utilities),
> using this tool I have thought on this:
> 
> 1. to create empty templates of Chakra and other specific (containers) files
> so, if some organization or someone wants to add or modify Chakra (or
> other file) it will be easy
> 
> 2. a lesson must contain a config file
> that config file must specify the lesson details : the grade, the subject, etc.
> so, when running karma utility it will look for that file in order to
> populate the necessaries files (based on the templates)
> 
> greetings

the karma.js script should be able to do those things

and perhaps it would be better to put the grade, subject, and timestamp
in a small klesson.json file that could simply read

{ "grade":1, "subject":"maths", "month":1, "week":3}

-- 
Bryan W. Berry
Technology Director
OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org