[Sugar-devel] Read 86 failed to start in Mirabelle /works in os240py XO-1 0.88.0 Sugar

[Peter Robinson]

>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to use the Read activity (version 86) in Mirabelle (either
>> running from within Virtualbox & on a USB stick) and got the following
>> error: "Failed to start".
>>
>> However, the same activity (same version) do launch and opens a document
>> correctly (e.g. a pdf or a djvu file) on a XO 1.5 with Sugar 0.84.16
>> (version 125).

Read is horribly broken on gnome 2.30 and hence Mirabelle and hence
the reason it was dropped from the final release of SoaS-3. Its due to
upstream API changed in evince. Read needs to be updated to deal with
these changes.

Peter