[Sugar-devel] [pull request] Re: Better support for running non-sugar apps under Sugar

[Sebastian Silva]

Hi
The intention of this email was actually to raise a discussion about 
ways that Sugar could better
integrate with the rest of the GNU+Linux ecosystem.

Anyhow, Walter's answer was: Show me the code, so here it is:
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/283
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/122

This only covers point (1) in my plan: Try to use X11 window icons for 
generic applications in activities tray.
This already makes it quite nice when launching apps from the terminal.

Implementation-wise, It calculates padding in relation to 
style.STANDARD_ICON_SIZE, therefore it works both with SUGAR_SCALING at 
100 and 72.

Attached is a small png of the result.

This solves the 1 issue for using X11 apps in Sugar.
Do you think it could make it into 0.102 timeline?

In the future I hope we will be able to add some sort of .desktop 
launcher file support.

I'm excited that this is my first real contribution to the 
shell/toolkit space that I think might get merged, please be gentle 
when reviewing. :-)

Regards,
Sebastian


El mié, 12 de mar 2014 a las 8:11 AM, Walter Bender 
<walter.bender at gmail.com> escribió:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Sebastian Silva
> <sebastian at fuentelibre.org> wrote:
>>  I know this topic has been discussed here more than once.
>>  I feel there is a resistance because of a "purity" of design.
>> 
> I feel there is a resistance because no one has written the patch.
> (Patches welcome).
> 
>>  However it's a
>>  bit silly that we need to reinvent everything because we have a 
>> thing for
>>  simplicity.
>>  For instance I'm doing a workshop with children and I'd have liked 
>> to use
>>  "aseprite", a pixel art design program that has everything I need 
>> and a
>>  simple interface. Paint activity isn't quite apt for the job.
>> 
>>  So I guess I can contribute to define what I mean:
>> 
>>  1. Support Freedesktop.Org Icon specification and icon naming 
>> conventions
>>  for non-sugar applications, instead of the grey dot in the Frame.
>>  2. Support Freedesktop.Org Desktop Entry specification for launching
>>  non-sugar applications. Proposal: use ~/.sugar/launchers/ for 
>> .desktop
>>  files. These would appear in the Home View, much like Activities do.
>> 
>>  I know we are in Feature Freeze but I only want to propose and 
>> discuss the
>>  merits of the feature, so maybe I or others can invest the time 
>> required to
>>  achieve this for the next release.
>> 
>>  Regards,
>>  Sebastian
>>  PS: Extra points for sugarizing aseprite, it's really cool:
>>  http://www.aseprite.org/ . Hints and pointers on where to begin are 
>> also
>>  welcome.
>> 
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> 
> 
> -- 
> Walter Bender
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