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

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Sorry, we are so busy, these days...

I have tested it, and works as expected.

A few comments:

* gtk2 branch is in maintenance mode now, probably is better port this to
the gtk3 branch.
(Anyway need opinion of sugar maintainers)

* IMHO the code added to enable configure the examples directory is so
complicate,
and do not add too much value. I think is better use a fixed "examples" or
"samples"
(as in TurtleArt). If the maintainer want use it, should follow the
convention.
We do the same, by example with the "icons" directory.

* Finally, I think the button in the ObjectChooser deserve a special icon,
and not use the activity icon.
Probably using the "box" metaphor.

Thanks by the work and patience :)
Keep pushing! (my new motto)

Gonzalo


On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Martin Abente <
martin.abente.lahaye at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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Gonzalo Odiard
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