Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Social Help

2015-04-20 Thread James Cameron
Yes, integration with Sugar Network will be best. Connectivity to a server is rare. Sam, please try out Sugar Network and learn how it works. If there are any components missing, ask Sebastian for assistance. -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Social Help

2015-04-20 Thread Sam P.
Hi Gonzalo, On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:37 AM Gonzalo Odiard godi...@sugarlabs.org wrote: But if the server url can be configured (as in the proposal) In theory you could Sugar Network too at the server side, right? We only need define a standard way to provide context, like a parameter for

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 78, Issue 29

2015-04-20 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, James The utility sugar-launch can easily be executed in python by subprocess. I have attached the version I use which enables the -o option to allow specification of the Activity and the resume (can be by uri or by Journal object). This is a general utility and should work with any

Re: [Sugar-devel] Cannot write a function definition for a copy button.

2015-04-20 Thread Iain Brown Douglas
Thanks, Sebastian, for a very helpful and tactful reply. All the errors I failed to understand are from WebKitGtk. Thanks, Iain On Sun, 2015-04-19 at 09:31 -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote: On 19/04/15 05:10, Iain Brown Douglas wrote: Following a month of Learn Python the Hard Way, I

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Social Help

2015-04-20 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
But if the server url can be configured (as in the proposal) In theory you could Sugar Network too at the server side, right? We only need define a standard way to provide context, like a parameter for the bundle_id Regarding the proposal, I would like to see this more integrated with the Help

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Social Help

2015-04-20 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi, For some reason this email found it's way into gmail's spam folder. However the topic is very important. I disagree that this implementation needs to be adopted. In particular, most deployments still don't have a reliable connection to the Internet and we don't want to introduce a

[Sugar-devel] [Announcing] UNSTABLE 0.105.0 release

2015-04-20 Thread Martin Abente
Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce the beginning of a new development cycle road to Sugar 0.106. I have released the first UNSTABLE versions of the 0.105.x series to make it official. - http://download.sugarlabs.org/sources/sucrose/glucose/sugar/sugar-0.105.0.tar.xz -

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Start an activity from another activity

2015-04-20 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
The activity do not declare a dependency on another activity, and activity versions are not contemplated. The use case is simple, if you download something from the web, you can open it without pass throw the Journal (the Show in Journal button). Another candidate is the GetBooks activity. The

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Start an activity from another activity

2015-04-20 Thread Sam P.
Hi James, I do not think that these dependencies should be encoded. I do not want to create a confusing nested activity list thingo. When I think about it a little more, it kind of splits in to 2 use cases for me. Specific (launch this given bundle; eg. open pippy after python export in

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Feature] Start an activity from another activity

2015-04-20 Thread James Cameron
Thanks. What you describe sounds like activating a journal entry, which causes the default activity to be started. I think I'd like to hear from activity authors who would use the feature. For example, download completion in Browse; at the moment it offers show in journal, but could be open.