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

[Martin Abente]

Its been too quiet recently.

Apart from Bert I have not received any feedback from the current
"functional design" concept.

Anyone still interested? :)

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Martin Abente <
martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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