I am in favor of supporting stateless Activities. There are too many good use cases for them to not support having them. The Log Activity is a good example. There is no much point in having a Journal entry for Log. Old Journal entries do not point to old logs. (If they did there might be some point to having them, I suppose). Games might do better to save state information in the data directory rather than create a Journal entry, if the state is nothing more than high scores. The parameter in the __init__() method looks like it has been there from the beginning of Sugar. I don't mind changing the book if that is what needs to be done, but I think the trick documented in the book is worth preserving. James Simmons <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 1:07 AM, James Cameron <<a href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div class="im">On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:27:09AM +0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: > I just tried Log activity, it does create a Journal entry by default. </div>This has since changed. As I said, look at the Log activity source ... sorry I wasn't explicit enough ... in the git repository. Specifically, <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/log/mainline/blobs/master/logviewer.py#line329" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/log/mainline/blobs/master/logviewer.py#line329</a> is where the activity instructs Sugar not to create a Journal entry by default. And, <a href="http://git.sugarlabs.org/log/mainline/blobs/master/logviewer.py#line511" target="_blank">http://git.sugarlabs.org/log/mainline/blobs/master/logviewer.py#line511</a> is where a Journal entry is created as a result of user action. Sorry nobody has released a new version of Log yet. That might be a good idea. <div class="im"> > So I wonder, is the workaround described in the book supported? </div>Well, I don't know about supported, but it clearly doesn't work. Let's find out why and get it fixed, or changed. That is, in Sugar or the book. Books are code too, but they are slightly harder to change. -- James Cameron <a href="http://quozl.linux.org.au/" target="_blank">http://quozl.linux.org.au/</a> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div>