[Sugar-devel] Removal of Activity Keep button

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Hi James,
There are no problem, the KeepButton class is not removed, but is not added
by default in the toolbar.
The activities will work ok.

Gonzalo

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:39 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rafael,
>
> One of my concerns is that the Keep button is useless or misleading for all
> of my Activities.  That's why I hide it.  I also show how to hide it in my
> book "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!"  That is why I'd prefer that the Keep
> button be hidden by default.  Hiding it a second time won't hurt anything,
> and if someone actually has a use for it they can show it.  Just removing it
> breaks backward compatibility.  I go to a fair amount of effort to make
> Activities that support any version of Sugar, including using the new
> toolbars when they are available.  I don't want students to have to wonder
> if one of my Activities will work for them.  I know that full backwards
> compatibility is not possible for every Activity, but if you do Python
> without components other than GTK it should still be possible.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Rafael Ortiz <rafael at activitycentral.com>wrote:
>
>> Simon, James
>>
>> Thanks for pointing out the cases where the activities can fail.
>>
>> I think it's all clear for activity devs to follow.
>>
>> Recommendation: Remove keep button of all your activities if you have it
>> on the toolbars code. In order to have compatibility for sugar >=0.94.
>>
>> Thanks and cheers.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/29/2011 02:54 PM, James Simmons wrote:
>>>
>>>> Simon and Rafael,
>>>>
>>>> My Activities don't have any use for the Keep button, so they hide it.
>>>>  As a
>>>> result, if you just remove the Keep button they'll stop working.  Maybe
>>>> for
>>>> backward compatibility keep the button but hide it by default?
>>>>
>>>> James Simmons
>>>>
>>>> Just to be clear if we remove the keep button from an activity it wont
>>>> open
>>>>
>>>>> in previous sugar versions than 0.94
>>>>>
>>>>
>>> The use of the Keep button will be deprecated for a development cycle,
>>> only, see [1]. But I would still recommend you to remove the hide the keep
>>> button from your activity.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>   Simon
>>>
>>> [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/**archive/sugar-devel/2011-July/**
>>> 032438.html<http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-July/032438.html>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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