[Sugar-devel] [ASLO] Release Read ETexts-19

[Aleksey Lim]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:09:18PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
> Gabriel,
> 
> Actually it would be just as easy to copy the files from USB directly
> to the Journal and you could use the file name as the Journal entry
> title.  All of my Activities read and write to the Journal.  It's
> easy.  If I was going to do "Sugar Commander" I could copy code from
> these Activities and hack something together.
> 
> Aleksey's Library Activity was pretty nice when I tried it.  I don't
> think it addressed USB copying at all but it did give you more options
> for organizing Journal content.  That's another thing that special
> Journal Activities can do.
> 
> Ideally such Activities could work with .82 or greater and support
> both old and new style toolbars, as my three Activities now do.

In case of toolbars mess, for last Speak, CartookBuilder and Flipsticks
I used code ripped from sugar-toolkit[1] so activities don't contain any
ifs and look the same on all sugars.

For Library-2, I'm planing to switch to Toolkit[2] service i.e. pure
Vala/C based library w/o using sugar-toolkit at all. Toolkit will
support 0.82+ and all last sugar-toolkit features i.e. it lets using
full functional UI in not only python activities like GCompris.

[1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/toolkit/repos/mainline/trees/deprecated
[2] http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/toolkit/repos/mainline/trees/master

> 
> James Simmons
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Gabriel Eirea <geirea at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I find the idea of multiple Journal Activities appealing, and I think
> >> I could write "Sugar Commander" myself, except that it would only work
> >> for copying from the external media into the Journal, not from the
> >> Journal to the media.
> >
> >  I like this thread. This is a consistent demand from teachers in
> > Uruguay. Some time ago I created LeerPendrive [0], which allows the
> > user to browse the usb drive with a directory structure and copy the
> > files to the clipboard. (From the clipboard they can easily copy them
> > to the journal.) In spite of being very simple, it has been very used.
> > It is a pity that because it is just an activity you can't copy both
> > ways. I like the idea of integrating something like this in the sugar
> > core so you can do exactly that.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gabriel
> >
> >
> > [0] http://drupal.ceibaljam.org/sites/default/files/LeerPendrive-1.xo
> >
> 

-- 
Aleksey