Hi friends, I've been wishing to be able to nicely run Activities from a regular desktop for a while.
So I patched sugar-toolkit-gtk3 to allow for this (patch at https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/315 ) The patch allows to run Activities by using the sugar-activity script. I've tested this in Gnome, XFCE and Sugar itself. In order to use it I created a small notification tray applet that allows to start activities and even invoke journal items: (the menu is coming from clicking on the Sugar Labs "S" Logo) View Source menu item will open the system file manager pointed to the Activity path. source at: https://github.com/icarito/sugar-launcher-applet This patch to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 does not affect operation under Sugar. Might we even consider bundling the applet with sugar? The reflection logic is to provide a path-to-adolescence without such a steep disconnect between Sugar and Gnome. Also as a help for developers to keep Activities in mind without need for an emulator. This is the result of scratching an old itch. I'll love to hear your comments! Also I created a Feature page at https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/FreeDesktop_integration Sugar on, Sebastian
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