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

[Martin Abente]

Hello everyone:

>From the meeting notes and Bert suggestion I have what could be called the
version 2 of this feature, greatly simplified and complies with everyones
rightful suggestions.

To avoid spaming (for some time) the sugar-devel ML I will post the patches
just here:

sugar:
http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/sugar/0001-Examples-objects-support-V2.patch
sugar-toolkit:
http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/sugar-toolkit/0001-Examples_path-activity-info.patch

Feedback is welcome!
tch

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Martin Abente <
martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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