[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Allow running Sugar Activities outside Sugar

[Tony Anderson]

Sebastian

+1

Tony

On 04/18/2016 09:37 PM, Chris Leonard wrote:
> Sebastian,
>
> This seems like a very elegant solution that provides greater 
> flexibility in invoking Sugar, very nice indeed.
>
> cjl
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:57 AM, Sebastian Silva 
> <sebastian at fuentelibre.org <mailto:sebastian at fuentelibre.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi friends,
>
>     I've been wishing to be able to nicely run Activities from a
>     regular desktop for a while.
>
>     So I patched sugar-toolkit-gtk3 to allow for this (patch at
>     https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/315 )
>
>     The patch allows to run Activities by using the sugar-activity script.
>     I've tested this in Gnome, XFCE and Sugar itself.
>
>     In order to use it I created a small notification tray applet that
>     allows to start activities and even invoke journal items:
>     (the menu is coming from clicking on the Sugar Labs "S" Logo)
>     View Source menu item will open the system file manager pointed to
>     the Activity path.
>
>     source at:
>     https://github.com/icarito/sugar-launcher-applet
>
>     This patch to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 does not affect operation under
>     Sugar.
>     Might we even consider bundling the applet with sugar?
>
>     The reflection logic is to provide a path-to-adolescence without
>     such a steep disconnect between Sugar and Gnome.
>     Also as a help for developers to keep Activities in mind without
>     need for an emulator.
>
>     This is the result of scratching an old itch. I'll love to hear
>     your comments!
>     Also I created a Feature page at
>     https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/FreeDesktop_integration
>
>     Sugar on,
>
>     Sebastian
>
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