[Sugar-devel] Run Sugar activity

[Chihurumnaya Ibiam]

I can't reproduce the bug, take a look at shell.log - I included where you
can find it in my earlier reply - and see if you find anything.
You can also attach it here.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 4:15 PM Jui Pradhan <juipradhan2k at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.
> Actually I got the activity running on my sugar desktop. In my previous
> mail I had attached a video which might be a possible bug, could you please
> tell me what might have caused it?
>
> Regards,
> Jui Pradhan
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 18:03 Chihurumnaya Ibiam <
> ibiamchihurumnaya at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
>
>> Hey Jui,
>>
>> The logs can tell you why something isn't working as intended, for
>> activities see
>> `~/.sugar/default/logs/activity_bundle_id.log`, for sugar logs
>> `~/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log`.
>>
>> You can also share your logs here so we can help.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 12:34 PM Jui Pradhan <juipradhan2k at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for replying,
>>>
>>> -Regarding the translations I added a few translations to the Analyze
>>> Activity. I havent really tried applying any translate.sugarlabs.org changes
>>> using the download script locally yet. However, kindly tell me if you have
>>> any suggestions or steps which you think might help or tips on solving the
>>> most likely problems that I might face.
>>> - Thanks for helping with getting the activity running for testing
>>> version changes. :)
>>> - If I make any progress in fixing the disappearing status icons on
>>> bottom right of the frame (issue in my first video) I will comment on
>>> github issue or use the mailing list. Currently looking for possible
>>> reasons that might have caused this error. :)
>>> - Regarding the second bug, its not just the terminal icon that gets
>>> stuck on top of the journal, however all icons can possibly get stuck. I
>>> have a video of the actions leading up to this. Link to the video:
>>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1HBTD5FGMSxkH_aFVQ0mh-hHaOzRTPdvu
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jui Pradhan
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 1:13 AM James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Welome Jui,
>>>>
>>>> Your message was rejected by the mailing list for being too large.  We
>>>> have 620 subscribers to the mailing list, and forwarding a large
>>>> message to all of them, especially when most of them don't want to
>>>> look at the attachments, can damage us all.  Please upload any videos
>>>> and provide links.
>>>>
>>>> We try not to add .po files directly, instead we use a web site
>>>> https://translate.sugarlabs.org/ to capture translations and merge
>>>> them later using activity-translations in the sugar-tools repository.
>>>>
>>>> When testing activities from GitHub, be sure to place them in the
>>>> Sugar activity paths; there are two;
>>>>
>>>> /usr/share/sugar/activities/
>>>>
>>>> ~/Activities/
>>>>
>>>> The directory must be named N.activity, where N can be anything but is
>>>> usually the activity name.
>>>>
>>>> Sugar will rescan these directories when they change.  When the scan
>>>> happens between when the directory is created and the activity.info
>>>> file is written, Sugar may disregard the directory.  This can be
>>>> worked around by either restarting Sugar or changing the modification
>>>> time of the directory.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I've seen the status icons on the Frame disappear, but I thought
>>>> it was a GTK problem because it happened after a GTK upgrade.  Let us
>>>> know if you can fix this.  It is tracked in
>>>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/issues/819
>>>>
>>>> No, I've not seen the Terminal icon stuck over the top of the Journal
>>>> and Home View as shown in your second video.  But your video does not
>>>> show the time leading up to this; can you describe what you did to
>>>> cause this?
>>>>
>>>> Jui Pradhan wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hello,
>>>> >
>>>> > I am Jui Pradhan, a second year CS student pursuing my BE degree from
>>>> Birla
>>>> > Institute of Technology, Pilani (BITS, Pilani). I look forward to
>>>> contribute to
>>>> > sugar labs and am an aspiring Gsoc participant. I have got Sugar
>>>> (version
>>>> > 0.116) running on a virtual box with Debian 10 Buster build. I am
>>>> interested in
>>>> > "Improve and Maintain atleast 25 sugar-activities".
>>>> >
>>>> >  - I have experience with python and almost finished learning pygtk
>>>> over the
>>>> > past month. (Couldnot contribute much due to midterm examination.
>>>> However, now
>>>> > that they are done, I look forward to being an active
>>>> contributor) Inaddition
>>>> > to that, I am fluent with 3 languages whose translations seem to be
>>>> missing in
>>>> > most of the activities. After adding .po files of the translations,
>>>> how do
>>>> > I regenerate using python setup.py genpot? Can someone please guide.
>>>> >
>>>> > - (Just a newbie problem): How do I get the activities which are not
>>>> shown on
>>>> > the home screen (F3) running? I downloaded the Finance-15 version on
>>>> Sugar
>>>> > desktop, however I have no clue how to get it running as an activity.
>>>> >
>>>> > (probable issue/bugs)
>>>> > 1. I am not sure if it is meant to be this way or is a bug. Attaching
>>>> a video
>>>> > ..... The system status keys displayed on the right bottom of the
>>>> frame seem to
>>>> > disappear after clicking once or twice.
>>>> >
>>>> > 2. In the Journal on dragging the icon, it remains stuck there and
>>>> overlaps
>>>> > other entries in the journal as well as the activities.(eg write
>>>> activity)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> James Cameron
>>>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>>>>
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