[Sugar-devel] Run Sugar activity
James Cameron
quozl at laptop.org
Fri Mar 27 19:06:44 EDT 2020
Thanks.
Journal does support drag and drop so that objects can be moved to USB
drive or Documents folder. Problem may only occur under certain
conditions.
Let us know if you see it happen again.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 12:50:51AM +0530, Jui Pradhan wrote:
> Hello,
> Sorry for the late reply. Regarding the icons stuck in the journal, back then I
> didn't know what exactly to look for in the logs so I kept it for later. I
> remember the icons getting stuck over the journal by just dragging them over
> other icons. Infact, just to make the two videos, I reproduced it more than
> thrice. However, now that I tried, I could not reproduce the state. Replying,
> just so you may close the thread.
>
> Thanks
>
> Regards,
> Jui Pradhan
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 1:26 AM James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> Please contribute translations first to [2]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][3]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][4]https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HBTD5FGMSxkH_aFVQ0mh-hHaOzRTPdvu
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jui Pradhan
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:13 AM James Cameron <[3][5]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][6]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][7]
> 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][8]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][9]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] [10]http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
> > [2] [11]https://drive.google.com/open?id=
> 1HBTD5FGMSxkH_aFVQ0mh-hHaOzRTPdvu
> > [3] mailto:[12]quozl at laptop.org
> > [4] [13]https://translate.sugarlabs.org/
> > [5] [14]http://activity.info/
> > [6] [15]https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/819
> > [7] [16]http://quozl.netrek.org/
>
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> James Cameron
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> References:
>
> [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [2] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
> [3] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
> [4] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HBTD5FGMSxkH_aFVQ0mh-hHaOzRTPdvu
> [5] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [6] https://translate.sugarlabs.org/
> [7] http://activity.info/
> [8] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/819
> [9] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [10] http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
> [11] https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HBTD5FGMSxkH_aFVQ0mh-hHaOzRTPdvu
> [12] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [13] https://translate.sugarlabs.org/
> [14] http://activity.info/
> [15] https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/819
> [16] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [17] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [18] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
> [19] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [20] mailto:Sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org
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http://quozl.netrek.org/
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