[Sugar-devel] Sugar on Ubuntu

[Tony Anderson]

Hi Walter,

I deleted HelloWorld from /usr/share/sugar/activities and restarted. The 
HelloWorld activity was in the Home and List views. Go figure! Possibly 
when I ran sugar-install-bundle, I needed to restart to get the activity 
registered.

Tony

On 07/01/2016 02:55 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net 
> <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hi, Walter
>
>     My bad. I meant /home/olpc/Activities. The Ubuntu version uses
>     /usr/share/sugar/activities so that all accounts can access the
>     same activity set.
>
>
> I have not tried the latest Ubuntu Sugar packaging, but it has long 
> been the case that we support looking for activities in both 
> /usr/share/sugar/activities and $HOME/Activities. User-installed 
> activities end up in $HOME/Activities. The bug as you are reporting it 
> seems to be that the list view is not finding the latter activities. 
> The log file may be revealing. Can you please post it?
>
> -walter
>
>
>
>     Tony
>
>
>     On 07/01/2016 01:07 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Tony Anderson
>>     <tony_anderson at usa.net <mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net>> wrote:
>>
>>         I installed Sugar 0.107 on Ubuntu 14.04 as described in
>>         https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Ubuntu.
>>
>>         Activities in this version are at /usr/share/sugar/activities
>>         not /usr/olpc/Activities. However, sugar-install-bundle
>>         installs activities at /usr/username/Activities not in
>>         /usr/share/sugar/activities. As a result, the activity is not
>>         available in the List view.
>>
>>
>>     I would have expected Sugar to look in
>>     /usr/share/sugar/activities and $HOME/Activities as it does on
>>     Fedora systems. I was unaware of it ever looking in
>>     usr/olpc/Actvities (maybe on a really old version of Sugar???)
>>
>>         The activities in /usr/share/activities need 755 permission
>>         not 700 as given by sugar-install-bundle.
>>
>>         Incidentally, Ubuntu has changed the login screen. The choice
>>         of desktops is not made with a small icon at the top right of
>>         the login screen, not by an icon on the login itself.
>>
>>         Tony
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