[Sugar-devel] Activity as regular objects proposal

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 13:36, Sascha
Silbe<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:59:43PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>>> The more important point is that it also works for people installing
>>> Sugar
>>> from packages on their own system, without manual symlink fiddling. My
>>> imagined use case is someone doing a "full" Sugar desktop installation
>>> (by
>>> using a corresponding meta package) and wanting to try out the latest
>>> Read
>>> release now featuring continuous scrolling (entirely fictional).
>>
>> Why this person doesn't have Read installed in ~/Activities?
>
> Because package managers usually don't touch home directories (for good
> reasons)?

But apps do on their first start.

Anyway, this is a packaging issue, representing out-of-DS dirs in the
journal doesn't seem to me like directly attacking the problem.

Other desktops use PackageKit for this, but we are not going to be
able to all interesting activities packaged for all distros anyway.

Regards,

Tomeu

> CU Sascha
>
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