[Sugar-devel] [PATCH sugar] Example objects support

[Martin Abente]

Please lets move this conversation to the design thread. I just posted
there the latest patches that complies with everyone's suggestions.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:

> Maybe the ObjectChooser can look by default at a fixed directory (as
> "examples")
> but have a optional parameter to solve this particular cases.
>
> It's true etoys (or scratch) have his own particular directories,
> but also use his particular methods to access it.
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Martin Abente <
> martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Bert!
>>
>> Thanks for taking your time looking at this.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I would really appreciate if you could bring you ideas to the design
>> thread. :) Because the design of this feature seems to be changing there.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 2012-08-21, at 15:38, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>>>
>>> > Martin Abente Lahaye <martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> writes:
>>> >
>>> >> +    def _add_activity_example(self, home_activity):
>>> >> +        examples_path = os.path.join(home_activity.get_bundle_path(),
>>> >> +                                    'examples')
>>> >> +
>>> >> +        if not os.path.exists(examples_path):
>>> >> +            return
>>> >
>>> > If you add a guard against home_activity.get_bundle_path() returning
>>> > None, you can drop the special-casing for the Journal activity.
>>>
>>>
>>> I like the general idea very much. However, instead of a magic directory
>>> name, couldn't the activity.info file have a new entry giving the
>>> examples path?
>>>
>>> This could be encapsulated in a function
>>> home_activity.get_examples_path().
>>>
>>> The advantage of this would be that activities could specify a directory
>>> (relative to the bundle directory) that fits their structure better than
>>> having to put the examples into a fixed location in the bundle. In very
>>> special cases they could even give an absolute path, e.g. Etoys examples
>>> are in /usr/share/etoys/ExampleEtoys ...
>>>
>>> - Bert -
>>>
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