[Sugar-devel] Journal-like activities (was: Re: [ASLO] Release Read ETexts-19)

[James Simmons]

I have begun work on a new Activity "Sugar Commander" which will be
able to copy files from anywhere into the Journal and also update
Journal metadata, delete Journal entries, etc.

I want this Activity to work in .82 and up.  In .82 datastore lists
out files on external media as if they were Journal entries.  The only
way I've seen to distinguish which is which is to look at the
"mountpoint" metadata entry for the jobjects.  Unfortunately, while
they are indeed different for the Journal and for external media I
can't tell which mountpoint represents which.

This issue goes away in .84 and later, of course.

I've been looking at the deprecated Journal Activity to see how it
does this and I don't see anything that would suggest how it's doing a
list of just Journal objects.

If anyone can suggest a way to resolve this I'd be grateful.  The Git
repository for Sugar Commander is here:

http://git.sugarlabs.org/projects/sugar-commander

James Simmons