[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

[Lucian Branescu]

Jetpack is not directly related. It is in fact very similar to
Chrome's extension API.

2009/6/7 Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com>:
> Also something new and related in Mozilla land:
>
> https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/
>
> 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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