[Sugar-devel] [FEATURE] Create an adapter that calls the third parties/libraries for better maintainability.

[Alejandro García]

Yes, something like that.

On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 8:24 PM Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 9:19 PM Alejandro García <tonadevv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> I was thinking something like calling a GtkAdapter.Label(...) instead of
>> Gtk.Label (...), or a WebKitAdapter.emit_signal (...) instead of
>> WebKit2.emit_signal (...).
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>> Are these examples more clear of what I'm trying to say?
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>> The CollabWrapper and SugarGame projects are closer to what I'm trying to
>> say. But not the SugarToolkit, as it creates some widgets, but if the
>> developer needs more, he will use the Gtk library directly.
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> Maybe you are thinking more of something like this:
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> https://github.com/sugarlabs/cardsort/blob/master/toolbar_utils.py
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> -walter
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>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 7:54 PM Alejandro García <tonadevv at gmail.com wrote:
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>>> Ok. Thanks for the clarification.
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>>> On Sun, Feb 10, 2019, 7:44 PM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org wrote:
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>>>> Examples of adapters used by Sugar activities are;
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>>>> - Sugar Toolkit for GTK 3, for Python activities,
>>>>   https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3
>>>>   (assumed to be preinstalled on a system that runs Sugar)
>>>>
>>>> - Sugargame, an integration of GTK 3 and Pygame,
>>>>   https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugargame
>>>>   (kept as copies of files in activity source code)
>>>>
>>>> - CollabWrapper, a simplification of Telepathy,
>>>>   https://github.com/sugarlabs/collabwrapper
>>>>   (kept as copies of files in activity source code)
>>>>
>>>> - Sugar Web for JavaScript activities,
>>>>   https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-web
>>>>   (kept as copies of files in activity source code)
>>>>
>>>> We also call them Python modules or Sugar components.
>>>>
>>>> Please learn each of these adapters fully.
>>>>
>>>> We already have all the adapters needed, but if you have an idea for a
>>>> new one, please specify it and show how it would simplify maintenance.
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>>>> Also, there are some common code patterns in activities that could be
>>>> added to the above adapters.
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>>>> A disadvantage of adapters is where they are packaged for Linux
>>>> distributions, such as the Toolkit, because then API version
>>>> dependencies have to be considered.  (e.g. if we have to add a feature
>>>> to the Toolkit to support a new release of the Chat activity, then
>>>> those new releases of the Chat activity won't be able to be used on
>>>> old releases of the Toolkit.)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> James Cameron
>>>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
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