[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] SSB creator

[Lucian Branescu]

I don't really need a separate activity, just a way to show it in the
Home View and a way to share it.

However, I do need a way to allow users to customise the web page
bundles. Users must be able to add userscripts (greasemonkey),
userstyles (custom css) and bookmarklets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet that are then shown in a
toolbar in Browse.

Since this is site-specific functionality, it would make Browse
needlessly complicated to support it directly. Hence a site-specific
browser. Also, SSBs should work with online websites as well.

I'll contact Simon about this.

2009/6/7 Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>:
> 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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