[Sugar-devel] acti-plications: write once, run anywhere?

[Thomas C Gilliard]

Sascha Silbe wrote:
> Excerpts from Erik Blankinship's message of Fri Jan 21 02:58:58 +0100 2011:
>
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>> 1. On a dual boot machine, probably an xo, where activities are installed
>> into /home/user/Activities/ where useris probably *always *olpc
>>     
>
> No, it isn't. XOs aren't the only machines running Sugar. And, FWIW,
> there's no dual-boot on the XO: Sugar and Gnome are desktop environments,
> not operating systems. You can switch between them at run time.
>
> The last time I tried it, SoaS used "liveuser" as user name. On my own XO
> (running Debian Squeeze instead of an OLPC build), the user name is
> sascha.silbe. On multi-user systems (e.g. LTSP) you'll have several
> different users with different user names. And these are just the most
> common configurations...
>
>   
>> 2. Sugar as an application in gnome (within a Xephyr window) where
>> activities can be installed.... a few places, including
>> /home/user/Activities/
>>     
>
> sugar-emulator is meant for development, not regular usage. It doesn't
> affect locations (for executables, data, activities, etc.) in any way,
> however.
>
>   
In Gnome-sugar-desktop Installs, and my Virtualbox4 Virtual Machines (1)

Activities seem to be located in 2 places:
1-)original (and .rpm?) Activities are in /usr/share/sugar/activities/xxx

2-) They seem to be ignored once an (xxx).xo file is downloaded from ASLO
  these are in /home/(user)/Activities/xxx

I set them up with a sugar icon (Add to Desktop) on the Gnome Desktop 
with properties "sugar-emulator -f" (Full screen)
This is the main way the sugar-desktop is accessed.
Or from the Menu Item: Education/Sugar where it is windowed.

(Though the user can use gdm switcher to open sugar alone at login)

(1) http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Emulator_image_files#Other_virtual_machines

Tom Gilliard
satellit
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> Sascha
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