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

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 2012-08-22, at 04:27, Martin Abente wrote:

> 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

I have not tried it, but by eyeballing the code looks fine :)

- Bert -


> 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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