Yes, that is exactly the use-case: Someone copies a bundle to the journal and (if everything corresponds) voilá! Another use-case could be while received from another sugar user (through send-to), and so on. What I explained in the previous email was just the general case, or what I could recall hehe... <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajay@activitycentral.com">ajay@activitycentral.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Martin for the reply. So, the use-case of installation happening when the ".xo" is simply copied (say, from a pen-drive to the journal) is ok? I am not being judgemental, just wanting to know that if this is an already-discussed, accepted use-case. Regards, Ajay <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Martin Abente <<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > The journal is constantly watching for the new entries that are created or > updated. For every newly created or updated journal entry, it checks whether > or not this entry is a bundle (ie, an activity bundle). > > IF this journal entry is an bundle, it checks if the activity is already > installed or not, if not installed, it just installs it. > > That is basically how the magic activities installation works, IIRC. > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Ajay Garg <<a href="mailto:ajay@activitycentral.com">ajay@activitycentral.com</a>> wrote: >> >> Hi all. >> >> I will be grateful, if someone could please let me know the purpose of >> the following method : (A somewhat step-by-step use-case explanation >> will be really useful :-) ) >> >> """ >> def _check_for_bundle(self, object_id) >> """ >> >> in "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jarabe/journal/journalactivity.py". >> >> >> >> Regards, >> Ajay >> _______________________________________________ >> 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> > > </div></div></blockquote></div>