[Sugar-devel] question about: Main Karma Package

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Lucian,

thanks a lot for raising that issue, it's certainly an aspect we hadn't
considered!

Cheers,
Christoph

2009/7/22 Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>

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