[Sugar-devel] About show-launcher option

[Gonzalo Odiard]

+1 to deprecate it.

Gonzalo


On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>wrote:

> Answering your question, this was used for activities that wouldn't make
> sense to be launched without a file. Think of Read without an object
> selector, for example. These days it seems like these activities should all
> provide a selector (with the usual UI).
>
>
> On 13 January 2014 15:29, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
>> Recently, a change in sugar was made to not show a activity in the
>> activities list,
>> if the show_launcher == 'no' [1]
>>
>> As the activities list is the only way to uninstall a activity, or see
>> the version installed,
>> I would like to know what is the use case where this is needed.
>>
>> Probably, this option had sense in older versions of sugar,
>> I don't know if is needed anymore.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Gonzalo Odiard
>>
>> SugarLabs - Learning Software for children
>>
>> [1]
>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/commit/f4638b5f481478e96195d55aa38c90fd33db9aee
>>
>> NOTE: The only activity I found using show_launcher = no was "Read", and
>> I modified it.
>>
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>
>
> --
> Daniel Narvaez
>



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Gonzalo Odiard

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