[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

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On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:

> On 7 Jun 2009, at 18:18, Lucian Branescu wrote:
>
> > 1. I don't really want to zip it if I can avoid it. If I do zip it and
> > get an .xo, how can I add it to the Journal programatically?
> > 2. I've changed that. All SSBs are subdomains to org.sugarlabs.ssb
> > (like org.sugarlabs.ssb.GMailActivity)
> >
> > 2009/6/7 Bobby Powers <bobbypowers at gmail.com>:
> >> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Lucian
> >> Branescu<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> For my project, I will extend Browse with the ability to create
> >>> SSBs.
> >>> Read more here
> http://honeyweb.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/the-user-experience/
> >>>
> >>> I have made a small script that is triggered by a button in the
> >>> Browse
> >>> toolbar. It also works from Terminal.
> >>>
> >>> Later on this script will do more things, but I'd like some feedback
> >>> about it as early as possible.
>
> Just wanted to flag an item that might be of interest to you on the
> 0.86 Browse roadmap "export for offline viewing (Web page - HTML only,
> Web page - Complete)":
>
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Release/Roadmap/0.86#Browse
>
> I know this doesn't make a first class 'Activity' out of a page, but
> seems to have quite a feature overlap with your project. It would
> allow Browse to keep any page to the Journal so it can be resumed off-
> line and/or distributed to other users (via Journal entry sharing
> already in 0.84). It would also allow content providers an easy way to
> create and distribute more complicates/deep html/css/javascript/flash
> type rich web sites/pages by just zipping them up.
>
> Regards,
> --Gary
>
> >> Hi Lucian,
> >>
> >> 2 things:
> >>
> >> 1) rainbow should prevent you from creating new activities in
> >> ~/Activities, so I don't think that approach would work on an XO with
> >> an OLPC build.  Since I think what you want is to create an activity,
> >> zip it, and add it to the journal, you could probably do something
> >> like this:
> >> import tempfile
> >> ssb_path = tempfile.mkdtmp(dir=activity.get_activity_root())
> >>
> >> 2) the bundle_id you create probably should begin with org.laptop ,
> >> as
> >> that could cause collisions with other activities.  maybe
> >> org.sugarlabs.ssb ?
> >>
> >> nice start so far!
> >>
> >> bobby
> >>
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