[Sugar-devel] Run Sugar activity

[James Cameron]

Please contribute translations first to translate.sugarlabs.org if you
can, because holding translations in GitHub takes more time to merge.
I'm in that situation with Pippy and don't like it.

I don't have the bandwidth at the moment to download a video, but if
you could explain what you did to reproduce please do so.  Thanks.

Also I usually find video doesn't show what you did with mouse or
keyboard.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 05:04:23PM +0530, Jui Pradhan wrote:
> Thanks for replying,
> 
> -Regarding the translations I added a few translations to the Analyze Activity.
> I havent really tried applying any [1]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: 
> [2]https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HBTD5FGMSxkH_aFVQ0mh-hHaOzRTPdvu
> 
> Regards,
> Jui Pradhan
> 
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:13 AM James Cameron <[3]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
>     [4]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 [5]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
>     [6]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
>     [7]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
> [2] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HBTD5FGMSxkH_aFVQ0mh-hHaOzRTPdvu
> [3] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [4] https://translate.sugarlabs.org/
> [5] http://activity.info/
> [6] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/819
> [7] http://quozl.netrek.org/

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