Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread pgf
i promised simon on irc that i'd raise this on the sugar devel list, so thanks for replying and reminding me. (to recap: my legacy activity would like to be able to present help and documentation info to the user via the local browser.) s page wrote: p...@laptop.org wrote: can someone

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread Luke Faraone
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:16 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: Ignoring that, you would think you could run one activity from another using a) Python code, b) exec(), or c) DBus. exec() is the spawn of satan: all code exec'd is run in your local namespace and takes over the current thread. You

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread Frederick Grose
I thought someone was working on a quick, smooth confirmation path through the Journal. On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Luke Faraone l...@faraone.cc wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:16 PM, p...@laptop.org wrote: Ignoring that, you would think you could run one activity from another

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
On resume mode in Home, there should exist a distinction between currently opened activities and those which arent: both are colored right now, with no distincion. Perhaps the currently opened activities should appear in a closer circle to the main XO. So, in the outside ring you can launch and

Re: [Sugar-devel] [Activities] using the browser to display help/docs

2009-02-22 Thread Eduardo H. Silva
disregard my e-mail, it was intended for another email thread, sorry. Eduardo 2009/2/22 Eduardo H. Silva hoboprim...@gmail.com: On resume mode in Home, there should exist a distinction between currently opened activities and those which arent: both are colored right now, with no distincion.