[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Examples objects support for activities.

[Martin Abente]

I don't see why not, we can achieve both things :). Maybe someone have
another opinion regarding this?

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 2012-08-21, at 20:17, Martin Abente wrote:
>
> > The design I implemented works like this:
> >
> > a. activity developers or deployments add a new "examples" folder inside
> the activity bundle with their examples objects.
> > b. when the activity starts, the example folder will be accessible
> through the journal as new volume option, and also from __any__
> ObjectChooser.
> > c. Only one volume button will be shown, even when many instances of the
> activity are running.
> > d. The example folder will disappear from the journal when the last
> instance is closed.
> > [...]
> > Waiting for more feedback... :)
>
> And in another thread:
>
> >> instead of a magic directory name, couldn't the activity.info file
> have a new entry giving the examples path?
> >
>
> > What I tried, or I am trying, to do is to make this feature available as
> easy as we can, so even deployments could add their own examples with very
> little technical knowledge requirements. That why I try this convention
> (magical) idea.
>
>
> Okay, so by default it should look for a directory named "examples". But
> maybe a different path could be set in activity.info?
>
> - Bert -
>
>
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