Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-21 Thread James Cameron
G'day Sebastian, Good start. Instead, let's integrate into Sugar; 1. in home view, which at the moment has favourites view and list view icon [1], add a second list view which parses and lists the translated application names of all desktop files, along with any iconography, 2. if an entry is

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-21 Thread Tony Anderson
We are supporting XOs with two architectures. Many of the interesting programs are compiled to object code. Therefore, it is not trivial to install and test that they work on an XO in gnome. In practice I do this on the gnome side. I then switch to Sugar to see that it also works there. With t

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-21 Thread D. Joe
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 08:00:47AM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: > On 05/20/2017 08:32 PM, D. Joe wrote: > >On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 02:06:55PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: > > > >>Also not disagreeing. I am curious as to the limitation you see in the > >>direct > >>execution model and how what you

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-20 Thread Tony Anderson
I think you missed the point. The fact that a gnome application runs in sugar from the command line means it works there. The next step is to write a simple wrapper so that it can be executed from the Home View as an activity. I usually start with HelloWorld and insert a subprocess call to the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-20 Thread D. Joe
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 02:06:55PM +0800, Tony Anderson wrote: > Also not disagreeing. I am curious as to the limitation you see in the direct > execution model and how what you are doing will improve on it. Gnome is the > desktop we get with Sugar (13.2.8) but I suspect the command line (subproce

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-19 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Sebastian Also not disagreeing. I am curious as to the limitation you see in the direct execution model and how what you are doing will improve on it. Gnome is the desktop we get with Sugar (13.2.8) but I suspect the command line (subprocess) technique would work with xfce and others. To

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-19 Thread Sebastian Silva
On 19/05/17 23:41, Tony Anderson wrote: > Hi, Sebastian > > Applications installed in gnome can be executed in Sugar with from the > command line: $gimp & (& optional since Terminal has tabs). A simple > sugar activity wrapper can make a gimp activity. This enables the > activity to appear in the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-19 Thread Tony Anderson
Hi, Sebastian Applications installed in gnome can be executed in Sugar with from the command line: $gimp & (& optional since Terminal has tabs). A simple sugar activity wrapper can make a gimp activity. This enables the activity to appear in the Home View. Currently in Rwanda we are using GCo

[Sugar-devel] Sugar App Launcher

2017-05-19 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi Sugar-devel! I keep reading '%s doesn't run in Sugar' % ('Scratch', 'File Manager', 'Modern Browser', 'blender', 'libreoffice', ...). Once upon a time Sugar was dreamed to be an independent platform, but in all sincerity we are an unconventional desktop environment for GNU/Linux, and we should