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

Erik Blankinship erikb at mediamods.com
Sat Jan 22 13:22:35 EST 2011


>
>
> In the long run, I'd like to convert the activity.info file into a
> regular .desktop file that gets installed to the standard location
> [2-4]. "Activity mode" invocation (via Sugar) would use a Sugar-specific
> key, "application mode" invocation (e.g. from within Gnome) would use
> the standard Exec key. So a single additional line in activity.info
> would suffice to make your activity available from within Gnome.
>
> Sascha
>
> [2] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2435
> [3] https://patchwork.sugarlabs.org/patch/303/
> [4] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec


I think these are really promising steps!  Thank you for your thoughtful
responses.

I will follow these developments and help where I can.
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