[Sugar-devel] How to start the Browse activity from my own activity?

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 23:30, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 02:23:46PM -0800, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> On 01.02.2010, at 14:20, James Cameron wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 01:41:26PM -0800, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> >> It includes a copy of browse, doesn't it?
>> >
>> > It imports.
>> >
>> > In /home/olpc/Activities/Wikipedia.activity/activity.py:
>> >
>> > sys.path.append("/home/olpc/Activities/Browse.activity")
>> > import webactivity
>>
>> So it works only on the XO ... interesting.
>
> Yes, that was curious.  Has nobody noticed it not working on SoaS or
> anything else?
>
>> In any case it does *not* start Browse as a separate activity.
>
> Correct, it starts Browse within the Wikipedia activity, using the
> Browse activity source ... but a user would not be able to tell the
> difference easily.
>
> I've just tested; one can open Wikipedia activity, type google.com into
> the location text field, and then start a Browse activity from the
> activity ring ... result, two active web browsers.  A feature!  ;-)

I'm confused, you mean you cannot have two active web browsers otherwise?

Regards,

Tomeu

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