[Sugar-devel] customizing activity launch (was Re: [IAEP] View Slides an alternative to PowerPoint?)

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 02.07.2009, at 15:36, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 15:26, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de>  
> wrote:
>> (moving to devel-list)
>>
>> Yes indeed, but we still have no obvious technical solution for this
>> in Sugar.
>>
>> Adding a pre-made project to the Journal might work, but currently it
>> would be resumed regularly and modified on stopping. It would need to
>> be marked as a template so that when keeping it, a copy is saved by
>> default. However, finding this template in the Journal would be hard.
>>
>> Making it into a separate activity bundle seems somewhat pretentious
>> to me, it would just be Etoys under a different name, right? And it
>> would suffer from the same resume-by-default problem like Etoys, in
>> that the Sugar UI makes it not easy enough to launch a fresh  
>> instance.
>
> Isn't this very similar to the site-specific-browser thing?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu

Does that deal in any way with resuming?

- Bert -

>
>> Ideas welcome.
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>> On 02.07.2009, at 14:51, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>>> I still wish there was a
>>> launch-this-project-and-we'll-have-taken-care-of-steps-1–5-below- 
>>> for-
>>> you
>>> Etoys bundle kicking around that we could just ship with the  
>>> Journal.
>>>
>>> -walter
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Bert
>>> Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>> Since this does not seem to be obvious: It's really simple to  
>>>> create
>>>> nice presentations in Etoys, there is not even scripting involved:
>>>>
>>>> 0. Start a fresh Etoys copy (in Strawberry, right-click the Etoys
>>>> icon
>>>> and choose "start" rather than resuming the latest project)
>>>> 1. click "new project"
>>>> 2. From the "supplies" box in the toolbar, drag out a "book".
>>>> 3. Use the top-left button to toggle more book controls
>>>> 4. Use the "+" button to add pages
>>>> 5. Place text on a page by dragging out a Text from the "supplies"
>>>> box, resize after right-clicking by dragging the yellow handle
>>>> 6. Import images either via the clipboard or directly from the
>>>> Journal
>>>> (using the Journal icon in the top right)
>>>> 7. Add annotations using the paint tool
>>>> 8. Add visual and sound effects for turning pages in the book's  
>>>> menu.
>>>> 9. Play with the options in the book's menu (like "view pages full
>>>> screen") etc.
>>>>
>>>> ... and of course you can place scripted objects / animations on  
>>>> the
>>>> pages too if you like.
>>>>
>>>> Also, the Etoys QuickGuides (accessible from the left-most button  
>>>> in
>>>> the toolbar) have an entire section on Books.
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -
>>
>>
>>
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