[Sugar-devel] New TuxPaint and GCompris wrapper activities

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Thanks Daniel.
Maybe we should publish this on ASLO with a explanation,
or put the information in the wiki.
These activities are requested many times by deployments

Gonzalo


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The TuxPaint and GCompris activities on activities.sugarlabs.org don't
> support ARM, and the solution taken by a few deployments is to add the
> systemwide gcompris/tuxpaint packages (from Fedora) to the OS build
> and use simple launcher activities from
> http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/nicaragua/
>
> Unfortunately these have a small problem in new versions of Sugar,
> after you use the activity for more than 90 seconds and exit, Sugar
> brings up a confusing error, "TuxPaint failed to launch" even though
> no problems actually occurred.
>
> There is some progress in fixing this in Sugar ("[PATCH sugar]
> Fallback to _NET_WM_PID to map windows to activities"), for now I have
> published some activity versions wihch work around the issue for
> existing versions of Sugar:
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/activities/TuxPaint-6.1.xo
> http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/activities/GCompris-3.1.xo
>
> Daniel
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