[Sugar-devel] Activity as regular objects proposal

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Tue Jul 28 06:59:43 EDT 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:55, Sascha
Silbe<sascha-ml-ui-sugar-devel at silbe.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:38:32PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>
>>>> To avoid space duplication in LTSP environments, ~/Activities can
>>>> contain symlinks to somewhere in /usr if the deployer wants users to
>>>> be able to uninstall and upgrade activities.
>>>
>>> But this won't allow them to downgrade to the system-installed version
>>> without using Terminal and fiddling with symlinks.
>>
>> Anybody thinks this is worth changing so much code thus introducing new
>> bugs?
>
> The more important point is that it also works for people installing Sugar
> from packages on their own system, without manual symlink fiddling. My
> imagined use case is someone doing a "full" Sugar desktop installation (by
> using a corresponding meta package) and wanting to try out the latest Read
> release now featuring continuous scrolling (entirely fictional).

Why this person doesn't have Read installed in ~/Activities?

Regards,

Tomeu

> CU Sascha
>
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