[Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:43, Sascha
Silbe<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:41:28AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>> The public API is the POSIX one, though I don't know how this will be
>> affected by future versions of Rainbow.
>
> I can't find anything regarding mount points in POSIX 2001. How do you
> expect Jims activity to discover them?
> Two ways come to my mind:
> a) parse /proc/mounts periodically
> Linux-only, time-wasting but future-proof
>
> b) use what the Journal is using internally, i.e. the Gnome way of the day
> cross-platform (as much as Gnome/Sugar are), event-driven, but likely to
> break on next release
>
> Just as a reminder: The intended workflow for Jims activity seems to be:
> 1. Start activity
> 2. Plug in USB stick with photos
> 3. Select and/or manage(?) photo from within the activity
>
> Answering "use POSIX" is like "use a computer", it doesn't help getting the
> job done. If the answer is "we want the user to copy the photos to the data
> store first", that doesn't get the job done either, but it's a policy and
> can be catered for (i.e. documented).

I agree that my answer wasn't nor complete nor accurate, thanks for
following up.

Regards,

Tomeu

> CU Sascha
>
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