Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-15 Thread Joel Stanley
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 09:59, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > that's the kind of thing I was thinking of. "The simplest thing that > could possibly work". Does anyone have this on their list for SugarCamp? I've had some interest from a teacher in running Pippy outside of Sugar. I'd

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-08 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My point is simply that we could create a very thin dummy layer that ... > Ah. Implementations details aside, I start to see the di

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My point is simply that we could create a very thin dummy layer that > provides the launcher API and datastore API but implements them very > simply. For example, the object selector would simply pop up the GTK > fi

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-08 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There are two issues here: >> 1. I don't know how the inner workings are designed, but as a Python >> activity author I never have to w

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are two issues here: > 1. I don't know how the inner workings are designed, but as a Python > activity author I never have to write a datastore call. My impression is > that the Journal asks Rainbow's launche

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-08 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Martin Langhoff >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, our journal use model says that the document is picked before

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Martin Langhoff >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, our journal use model says that the document is picked before >>> the app is called, so if we supp

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-08 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Martin Langhoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, our journal use model says that the document is picked before >> the app is called, so if we support >> >> $ sugar-wrapper Write.xo mydocument.rtf >> >> then we're done. (Again, I mi

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-08 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, our journal use model says that the document is picked before > the app is called, so if we support > > $ sugar-wrapper Write.xo mydocument.rtf > > then we're done. (Again, I might be extraordinarily naive about thi

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-07 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds good, it's on the list of the things I'd really like to do but > I'm too swamped to put focus on :( Ah, great to hear I'm not so lost in the woods! >> - journal behaviour - though it might be relatively simp

Re: [sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-07 Thread Marco Pesenti Gritti
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Martin Langhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thinking about how to extend the appeal (and long term viability!) of > sugar activities, one thing that appears as a clear opportunity is to > create a wrapper that allows to run sugar activities in a conventional > gnome

[sugar] Wrapping Sugar activities for other desktops

2008-11-06 Thread Martin Langhoff
Must preface this noting that I am relatively naive about Sugar internals. "Your thoughts are stupid and your face ugly" may be the most appropiate answer to this - after all, I know about the server, not the laptop :-) ... Thinking about how to extend the appeal (and long term viability!) of su