[Sugar-devel] Sugar On Broadway?

[Sebastian Silva]

Forgot to attach the rough patch...



El 26/04/16 a las 15:19, Sebastian Silva escribió:
>
> El 26/04/16 a las 15:08, Manash Raja escribió:
>> As Sebastian mentioned, it failed with segmentation fault. I then
>> though of first applying Sebastian's patch to try it again before
>> discussing it.
> Great, focusing on activities first will make the effort simpler. The
> pull request can be found at
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/315.
>
> Once applied you can start sugar activities with the sugar-activity command.
>
> First a minor issue was solved by the attached patch (BroadwayWindow
> does not provide X11 wm hints).
>
> You can start the activities with strace -o trace.txt and then look at
> the trace file.
> I took a quick look and, although I don't understand much, it appears
> SugarExt is trying to get some X11 hints.
> I suppose this can be conditionally ommitted at runtime (as done with
> the attached rough patch).
>
>> I am interested to work on this and I also mentioned Tony about it.
>> So, I would be happy if I could help.
>>
>> A few doubts that I had were:
>> 1) How and where will this feature be used.
> At this stage it's still an experiment. But it could enable to run Sugar
> activites on the web. Look for Open365.org for inspiration - perhaps we
> could make Sugar365?
>
> Such a project would need a larger effort until it can yield a usable
> product. A real product would need some product design and a
> sustainability strategy.
>
>> 2) If we consider it for deployment, then I guess it would be same
>> like Xephyr and Docker. In fact I also though of making a package for
>> sugar in Docker.
> Yes the reason to containerize would be to make the possibility to scale
> a web solution like the above for N users.
>
> From my side this is only an experiment as I have not the means to take
> it further, but I can work on it on a best effort basis, so your
> enthusiasm is very welcome and inspirational.

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