[Sugar-devel] Run Sugar activity

[James Cameron]

Welome Jui,

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We try not to add .po files directly, instead we use a web site
https://translate.sugarlabs.org/ to capture translations and merge
them later using activity-translations in the sugar-tools repository.

When testing activities from GitHub, be sure to place them in the
Sugar activity paths; there are two;

/usr/share/sugar/activities/

~/Activities/

The directory must be named N.activity, where N can be anything but is
usually the activity name.

Sugar will rescan these directories when they change.  When the scan
happens between when the directory is created and the activity.info
file is written, Sugar may disregard the directory.  This can be
worked around by either restarting Sugar or changing the modification
time of the directory.

Yes, I've seen the status icons on the Frame disappear, but I thought
it was a GTK problem because it happened after a GTK upgrade.  Let us
know if you can fix this.  It is tracked in
https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/819

No, I've not seen the Terminal icon stuck over the top of the Journal
and Home View as shown in your second video.  But your video does not
show the time leading up to this; can you describe what you did to
cause this?

Jui Pradhan wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am Jui Pradhan, a second year CS student pursuing my BE degree from Birla
> Institute of Technology, Pilani (BITS, Pilani). I look forward to contribute to
> sugar labs and am an aspiring Gsoc participant. I have got Sugar (version
> 0.116) running on a virtual box with Debian 10 Buster build. I am interested in
> "Improve and Maintain atleast 25 sugar-activities".
> 
>  - I have experience with python and almost finished learning pygtk over the
> past month. (Couldnot contribute much due to midterm examination. However, now
> that they are done, I look forward to being an active contributor) Inaddition
> to that, I am fluent with 3 languages whose translations seem to be missing in
> most of the activities. After adding .po files of the translations, how do
> I regenerate using python setup.py genpot? Can someone please guide.
> 
> - (Just a newbie problem): How do I get the activities which are not shown on
> the home screen (F3) running? I downloaded the Finance-15 version on Sugar
> desktop, however I have no clue how to get it running as an activity.
> 
> (probable issue/bugs)
> 1. I am not sure if it is meant to be this way or is a bug. Attaching a video
> ..... The system status keys displayed on the right bottom of the frame seem to
> disappear after clicking once or twice.
> 
> 2. In the Journal on dragging the icon, it remains stuck there and overlaps
> other entries in the journal as well as the activities.(eg write activity)

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James Cameron
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