Another note:<div><br></div><div>Thinking in the use case of a developer adding the ObjectChoser with the intention</div><div>of show to the users the examples directory content,</div><div>like TurtleArt today use a FileChooser, </div> <div>probably would be good have a option to set the examples directory as the first displayed</div><div>instead of displaying the content of the Journal, and then the user need change to </div><div>the examples directory.</div> <div>I don't know how difficult is implement it, but have sense from the point of view </div><div>of the usability.</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:godiard@gmail.com" target="_blank">godiard@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sorry, we are so busy, these days...<div><br></div><div>I have tested it, and works as expected.</div><div><br></div><div> A few comments:</div><div><br></div><div>* gtk2 branch is in maintenance mode now, probably is better port this to the gtk3 branch.</div> <div>(Anyway need opinion of sugar maintainers)</div><div><br></div><div>* IMHO the code added to enable configure the examples directory is so complicate,</div><div>and do not add too much value. I think is better use a fixed "examples" or "samples"</div> <div>(as in TurtleArt). If the maintainer want use it, should follow the convention.</div><div>We do the same, by example with the "icons" directory.</div><div><br></div><div>* Finally, I think the button in the ObjectChooser deserve a special icon, and not use the activity icon.</div> <div>Probably using the "box" metaphor. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks by the work and patience :)</div><div>Keep pushing! (my new motto)</div><div><br></div><div>Gonzalo</div><div><div><div class="h5"><br><br> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Martin Abente <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Its been too quiet recently.<br><br>Apart from Bert I have not received any feedback from the current "functional design" concept.<br><br>Anyone still interested? :)<div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Martin Abente <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Nice! Please also give it a try :)<br><br>@Gary, Gonzalo, ping ;) both patches are here: <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Etch/patches/examples/" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/</a><div> <div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div>On <a href="tel:2012-08-22" value="+59820120822" target="_blank">2012-08-22</a>, at 04:27, Martin Abente wrote:<br> <br> > Hello everyone:<br> ><br> > From the meeting notes and Bert suggestion I have what could be called the version 2 of this feature, greatly simplified and complies with everyones rightful suggestions.<br> ><br> > To avoid spaming (for some time) the sugar-devel ML I will post the patches just here:<br> ><br> > sugar: <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Etch/patches/examples/sugar/0001-Examples-objects-support-V2.patch" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/sugar/0001-Examples-objects-support-V2.patch</a><br> > sugar-toolkit: <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/%7Etch/patches/examples/sugar-toolkit/0001-Examples_path-activity-info.patch" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/sugar-toolkit/0001-Examples_path-activity-info.patch</a><br> ><br> > Feedback is welcome!<br> > tch<br> <br> </div>I have not tried it, but by eyeballing the code looks fine :)<br> <span><font color="#888888"><br> - Bert -<br> </font></span><div><div><br> <br> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Martin Abente <<a href="mailto:martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com" target="_blank">martin.abente.lahaye@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> > I don't see why not, we can achieve both things :). Maybe someone have another opinion regarding this?<br> ><br> ><br> > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Bert Freudenberg <<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de" target="_blank">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>> wrote:<br> > On <a href="tel:2012-08-21" value="+59820120821" target="_blank">2012-08-21</a>, at 20:17, Martin Abente wrote:<br> ><br> > > The design I implemented works like this:<br> > ><br> > > a. activity developers or deployments add a new "examples" folder inside the activity bundle with their examples objects.<br> > > b. when the activity starts, the example folder will be accessible through the journal as new volume option, and also from __any__ ObjectChooser.<br> > > c. Only one volume button will be shown, even when many instances of the activity are running.<br> > > d. The example folder will disappear from the journal when the last instance is closed.<br> > > [...]<br> > > Waiting for more feedback... :)<br> ><br> > And in another thread:<br> ><br> > >> instead of a magic directory name, couldn't the <a href="http://activity.info" target="_blank">activity.info</a> file have a new entry giving the examples path?<br> > ><br> ><br> > > What I tried, or I am trying, to do is to make this feature available as easy as we can, so even deployments could add their own examples with very little technical knowledge requirements. That why I try this convention (magical) idea.<br> ><br> ><br> > Okay, so by default it should look for a directory named "examples". But maybe a different path could be set in <a href="http://activity.info" target="_blank">activity.info</a>?<br> ><br> > - Bert -<br> ><br> ><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > Sugar-devel mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> ><br> ><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>Gonzalo Odiard<br><br><br> </font></span></div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Gonzalo Odiard<br><br><br> </div></div>