[Sugar-devel] [Design] Deleting Activity directory when deleting Activity bundle

[Thomas Gilliard]

Walter Bender wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
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>> On 30 July 2010 13:41, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> A 'Confirm erase' alert dialog appears that asks if you want to permanently
>>> erase the Activity (bundle). It provides a negative 'Keep' and positive
>>> 'Erase' button.
>>> For the proposed patch, to prevent the unwitting loss of Activity profile
>>> data or other content that may be stored in the Activity directory, an
>>> option checkbox should be added, such as, (check) erase all associated data,
>>> which could default to yes (checked).
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>> I disagree with the addition of a checkbox - in my experience, this
>> kind of complexity will result in a random response from the user.
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> +1
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>> I agree with the idea of deleting profile data when an activity is
>> uninstalled. (if they want the profile data, why uninstall the
>> activity?)
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> +1
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> (I presume the concern was over whether or not an update would remove
> the profile data.)
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A related problem for Soas is that an .xo stores it's activities in a 
different location (/home/liveuser/Activities) than those installed with 
the .iso (/user/share/sugar/activities

My experience is that one had to use rmdir -R 
/user/share/sugar/activities/(....).Activity to make a similar version 
of an .xo activity start.

Would the "Confirm erase" checkbox check and delete both locations?


Tom Gilliard
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Daniel
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