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

[Martin Abente]

Nice! Please also give it a try :)

@Gary, Gonzalo, ping ;) both patches are here:
http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> 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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