[Sugar-devel] Widget to show a notification message with a link

Jerry Vonau me at jvonau.ca
Sat Dec 6 23:38:51 EST 2014


Just a thought, wonder if adding x-scheme-handler/http to mime_types= in
browse's activity.info file would allow sugar to override what the system
is providing? Another place for that definition might be in
/usr/share/sugar/data/mime.defaults.

Jerry


> On December 6, 2014 at 8:57 PM Gustavo Duarte <gus.duarte at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Finally I found the setting needed to open links with Browser Activity
> by default.
>
> xdg-mime default sugar-browser.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
> and
>
> xdg-mime default sugar-browser.desktop x-scheme-handler/https
>
> Adding this settings, links on notifications messages should be opened
> by BrowserActivity.
>
> Offcourse a bash script to launch BrowserActivit  is needed. Something
> like:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> while [ -n "$2" ] ; do
>     case "$1" in
>
>         -u | --uri)         uri="$2"         ;;
>
>         *) echo unknown argument $1 $2 ;;
>
>     esac
>     shift;shift
> done
>
> sugar-launch org.laptop.WebActivity --uri "$uri"
>
> Thanks a lot for all your tips, were very helpfully.
>
> Gustavo.
>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Jerry Vonau <me at jvonau.ca> wrote:
> > Hi Gustavo,
> >
> >> On December 6, 2014 at 10:42 AM Gustavo Duarte <gus.duarte at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Add an actions, isn't an option, because the notification-daemon
> >> (Ubuntu 12.04 precise) does't support actions.
> >>
> >> From freedesktop specs https://developer.gnome.org/notification-spec/
> >> "
> >> Actions
> >>
> >> The actions send a request message back to the notification client
> >> when invoked. This functionality may not be implemented by the
> >> notification server, conforming clients should check if it is
> >> available before using it (see the GetCapabilities message in
> >> Protocol). An implementation is free to ignore any requested by the
> >> client. As an example one possible rendering of actions would be as
> >> buttons in the notification popup.
> >>
> >> Actions are sent over as a list of pairs. Each even element in the
> >> list (starting at index 0) represents the identifier for the action.
> >> Each odd element in the list is the localized string that will be
> >> displayed to the user."
> >>
> >>
> >> However hyperlinks is supported, if I add <a
> >> href="http://sugarlabs.org"> SugarLabs , works. Not exactly as I
> >> want .... :(
> >>
> >> When I do a click on the link, Firefox is opened.
> >>
> >> I tried change the system default browser setting with:
> >>
> >> gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec --type string
> >> '/usr/local/bin/sugar-browser "%s"'
> >>
> >> Notice: sugar-browser is a bash script to launch BrowserActivity.
> >>
> >> But after that, Firefox still opened each doing click on link of
> >> notification message.
> >>
> >>
> >> So the problem now is, how change the default browser on Sugar.
> >>
> >
> > Hum, sounds like the system's default mime definitions might be pointed
> > to
> > Firefox in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list. What does "xdg-mime
> > query
> > default text/html" return? The XO here returns 'firefox.desktop' even
> > without having the Firefox rpm installed. Not sure what the correct way
> > of
> > overriding this list would be, create
> > "~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list", or maybe using "xdg-mime
> > default ..."? Both of those ideas would need a .desktop file for browse
> > thou.
> >
> > Hope it helps,
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> >> Any idea ?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance.
> >>
> >> Gustavo.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Gustavo Duarte <gus.duarte at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Greats !! Thanks for these tips.
> >> >
> >> > El 05/12/2014 17:59, "Gonzalo Odiard" <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
> >> > escribió:
> >> >
> >> >> +1
> >> >>
> >> >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Sam P. <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Hi,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> If my memory is right, the freedesktop notification spec includes
> >> >>> "actions". You can have multiple of these and they are displayed
> >> >>> like
> >> >>> buttons [1]. When they are clicked you get a callback event.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I would prefer to implement the standard ranter than something
> >> >>> proprietary. That is just my opinions.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Thanks,
> >> >>> Sam
> >> >>>
> >> >>> [1]:  imgur.com/e8r9OZr
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Gonzalo Odiard
> >> >>
> >> >> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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