[Sugar-devel] Fwd: Activity Hiding

[Ignacio Rodríguez]

Would be good if we can make it more easy (Like activity)

I'll try ..

(Its just my idea!)



Ignacio Rodríguez
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2014-06-19 7:51 GMT-03:00 James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>:

> I see what you mean.  Well, if it were me, I would;
>
> - make a custom build with remote SSH access enabled, with a preloaded
>   public key, and a service that registers the laptop with a control
>   server,
>
> - write a control server that produces a list of IP addresses for laptops,
>
> - write a script to enable and disable the activities,
>
> - use a distributed shell (e.g. the Ubuntu or Debian dsh package) to
>   activate the script on the 25 laptops at once,
>
> With this preparation the daily task would be turning on the laptops,
> then executing a couple of commands:
>
> % dsh --group laptops  enable-activities
> % dsh --group laptops  poweroff
>
> I've done it this way before, though with actions other than enabling
> and disabling activities.
>
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:11:32PM +0530, Rachana Katkam wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > We thought about this as a solution but this will be tedious as we have
> around
> > 25 XO laptops. And the research duration would be almost of 3 months. So
> on a
> > daily basis moving activities to different folders and then getting them
> back
> > to Activities folder would definately become a overhead. We are looking
> for an
> > automation here, if possible.
> > Regards,
> > Rachana K
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >     that'll work. It may leave some funny artifacts in the journal:
> entries
> >     associated with missing activities, but otherwise, it is not really
> any
> >     different than uninstalling/ reinstalling.
> >
> >     -walter
> >
> >
> >     On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 6:12 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >         I've had some success by renaming the Activities/Activity1
> directory to
> >         /home/olpc to hide an activity, and rename it back later.
> >
> >         Requires skill with Terminal activity.
> >
> >         e.g.
> >
> >         mv Activities/Chat.activity ~  # to hide
> >
> >         mv Chat.activity Activities/   # to show
> >
> >         Might cause errors, not sure.  Please test.
> >
> >         --
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> >
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> >
>
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