[Sugar-devel] Run Sugar activity

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

Hey Jui,

The logs can tell you why something isn't working as intended, for
activities see
`~/.sugar/default/logs/activity_bundle_id.log`, for sugar logs
`~/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log`.

You can also share your logs here so we can help.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 12:34 PM Jui Pradhan <juipradhan2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for replying,
>
> -Regarding the translations I added a few translations to the Analyze
> Activity. I havent really tried applying any translate.sugarlabs.org changes
> using the download script locally yet. However, kindly tell me if you have
> any suggestions or steps which you think might help or tips on solving the
> most likely problems that I might face.
> - Thanks for helping with getting the activity running for testing version
> changes. :)
> - If I make any progress in fixing the disappearing status icons on bottom
> right of the frame (issue in my first video) I will comment on github issue
> or use the mailing list. Currently looking for possible reasons that might
> have caused this error. :)
> - Regarding the second bug, its not just the terminal icon that gets stuck
> on top of the journal, however all icons can possibly get stuck. I have a
> video of the actions leading up to this. Link to the video:
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HBTD5FGMSxkH_aFVQ0mh-hHaOzRTPdvu
>
> Regards,
> Jui Pradhan
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:13 AM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Welome Jui,
>>
>> Your message was rejected by the mailing list for being too large.  We
>> have 620 subscribers to the mailing list, and forwarding a large
>> message to all of them, especially when most of them don't want to
>> look at the attachments, can damage us all.  Please upload any videos
>> and provide links.
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>>
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