[Sugar-devel] Usage of sugar-build

[James Simmons]

I tried out Alt-Tab switching and it works fine.  I also tried prefs.json,
with mixed results.  This is the contents of the file:

{
        "resolution": "1024x768",
        "profile": "Willy Wonka"
}

Resolution worked just fine, and Sugar showed up in a window just like the
old days.  Instead of saying "Sugar in a Window" it says "Sugar Runner".  I
can't tell if it still uses Xephyr or not.

On the other hand, "profile" got ignored.  In the F1 and F2 views of Sugar
I am identified as "James Simmons" from my login id, not "Willy Wonka".

It seems to me that getting rid of Xephyr was supposed to be a big change
but I'm not seeing that.  If you specify a window size everything seems the
same as before.  You *can* run Sugar from a text mode virtual terminal,
which may or may not be new.

James Simmons



On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:01 PM, <mokurai at earthtreasury.org> wrote:

> Alt-tab to go between Sugar and other programs is very clumsy at first,
> but works. When I do this from a full-screen Sugar session I don't get the
> usual view of icons of other applications to choose from, but once I have
> Sugar and the program I want to alternate with set up for toggling
> between, it is quite easy.
>
> On Thu, July 25, 2013 12:10 pm, James Simmons 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.
> >
> > 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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