[Sugar-devel] Usage of sugar-build

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:10 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Manuel,
>
> I am aware that ./osbuild run can be done from within a GNOME session.  I
> did it that way the first time I ran it.  What I need to provide to my
> readers is a way they can easily move from a development environment to a
> Sugar environment and back again.  Running Sugar in a window made that easy.
> Generally when I debug a Sugar Activity I just quit and relaunch the
> Activity to test it.  Relaunching Sugar is not necessary.  The business with
> launching it from a virtual terminal makes that possible, and also makes it
> possible to run multiple copies of Sugar under different IDs so you can test
> collaboration.  In the absence of any instructions I assumed that this is
> what I was meant to do.  If there is an easier way to bounce between Sugar
> and GNOME without restarting Sugar each time I'd love to hear about it.

When you run Sugar using ./osbuild run, even though Sugar is running
full screen, it is running in a window in GNOME, so you can switch to
other windows within the GNOME session, and, for example, edit
activities.

>
> As for web activities, we do have a guest chapter from Lionel on the
> subject.  I agree the book needs more but I get the impression that we're
> still working out the details on this.  I am somewhat comfortable with HTML,
> JS, CSS, embedded fonts, and the like but I may not be the best person to
> write these chapters, at least until things stabilize a bit.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Manuel Quiñones <manuq at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> 2013/7/25 James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com>:
>> > I finally got sugar-build working on Fedora 19 last night.  I plan to
>> > update
>> > "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" to discuss this.
>>
>> Excellent James!
>>
>> > How to use "Ctrl-Alt-F2" to open a virtual terminal, which you will use
>> > to
>> > run ./osbuild run.  Using "Ctrl-Alt-Fkey" to go from the Sugar
>> > environment
>> > to your Python development environment.
>>
>> Is this really needed? "./osbuild run" can be done from inside the
>> GNOME session.
>>
>> > Anything else anyone can think of?
>>
>> Start promoting the development of web activities?
>>
>> .. manuq ..
>
>
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