[Sugar-devel] question about: Main Karma Package

[Bryan Berry]

that's a good point, we may end up just naming it index.html but
referring to the starting page as "the Chakra"
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 12:59 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote:
> Now that I'm actually looking at the layout, I realise that you MUST
> rename chakra.html/karmaplatz.html to index.html.
> 
> If you host the karma bundle somewhere on a web server, when you go to
> the bundle ROOT path the server will try to serve index.html, because
> that's the default. Since it's not there, it will 403.
> 
> Furthermore, if a random web developer with no knowledge of karma
> looks inside the karma bundle, they will instinctively look for
> index.html. Web devs also expect english, so chakra or karmaplatz will
> not tell them anything.
> 
> ]karmaindex.html might be alright for devs, but it still confuses web
> servers and there's no reason to deviate from the de-facto standard of
> index.html.
> 
> Sorry for the rant, but I really believe you're making a mistake by
> not naming the file index.html. You may call the interface element
> 'karma index' if you like, because that's what it is.
> 
> 2009/7/22 Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>:
> > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 17:49 -0500, Felipe López Toledo wrote:
> >> Hi Bryan.
> >>
> >> I have one question about
> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Karma/Bundle_layout
> >> I'm working with our new layout ;)
> >>
> >> until yesterday, each lesson could work independently. each lesson had
> >> their own js files.
> >> The beauty of that way, was that you could take a specific lesson
> >> folder and put it everywhere and it would work.
> >>
> >> if we want to do that with the new arrangement, it would be necessary
> >> to carry:
> >> The specific Lesson folder + Karma lesson bundle folder
> >
> > Exactly. the stuff common to all the lessons, like karma.css, jquery.js,
> > goes in the top-level directory
> >
> > so  ROOT > js/ , css/ , karmaplatz.html, lessons/
> >        lessons > js/, css/
> >
> > Does it seems like too much overhead to carry around the karmaplatz? I
> > figure that most of the time devs will want the karmaplatz to accompany
> > their lessons.
> >
> >> I would suggest to merge Karma lesson bundle / js with Lesson / js.
> >> The problem is that we will have repeated files.
> >
> > Yeah. my best solution is just to separate them as  specified before
> >
> >> also, the Main Karma Package has its own js folder ("..contain the
> >> code common to all examples.."), I suppose it is not necessary since
> >> we have the examples folder that will be (I suppose) a Karma Lesson
> >> bundle folder.
> >> or maybe I'm misunderstanding things.
> >
> > I want the examples to use the same common js/ and css/ folders as
> > lessons/ . By default, the links to the examples will appear in
> > karmaplatz.html  .  I want the paths used in the examples to be the same
> > ones that can be used by the new user-created lessons   in lessons/  .
> > Using the same file directory layout makes this easier.
> >
> > So, I want the examples to look at root > css/, js/  for their common
> > files just as the new "lessons" in lessons/ will
> >
> >>
> >> felipe
> >>
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Bryan W. Berry
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