that's the spirit! looking fine, I just did two minor comments in the PRs that could improve the patch.
cheers, 2014-03-20 15:40 GMT-03:00 Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org>: > Hi > The intention of this email was actually to raise a discussion about ways > that Sugar could better > integrate with the rest of the GNU+Linux ecosystem. > > Anyhow, Walter's answer was: Show me the code, so here it is: > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/pull/283 > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/122 > > This only covers point (1) in my plan: Try to use X11 window icons for > generic applications in activities tray. > This already makes it quite nice when launching apps from the terminal. > > Implementation-wise, It calculates padding in relation to > style.STANDARD_ICON_SIZE, therefore it works both with SUGAR_SCALING at 100 > and 72. > > Attached is a small png of the result. > > This solves the 1 issue for using X11 apps in Sugar. > Do you think it could make it into 0.102 timeline? > > In the future I hope we will be able to add some sort of .desktop launcher > file support. > > I'm excited that this is my first real contribution to the shell/toolkit > space that I think might get merged, please be gentle when reviewing. :-) > > Regards, > Sebastian > > > El mié, 12 de mar 2014 a las 8:11 AM, Walter Bender > <walter.ben...@gmail.com> escribió: > > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> > wrote: > > I know this topic has been discussed here more than once. I feel there is a > resistance because of a "purity" of design. > > I feel there is a resistance because no one has written the patch. (Patches > welcome). > > However it's a bit silly that we need to reinvent everything because we have > a thing for simplicity. For instance I'm doing a workshop with children and > I'd have liked to use "aseprite", a pixel art design program that has > everything I need and a simple interface. Paint activity isn't quite apt for > the job. So I guess I can contribute to define what I mean: 1. Support > Freedesktop.Org Icon specification and icon naming conventions for non-sugar > applications, instead of the grey dot in the Frame. 2. Support > Freedesktop.Org Desktop Entry specification for launching non-sugar > applications. Proposal: use ~/.sugar/launchers/ for .desktop files. These > would appear in the Home View, much like Activities do. I know we are in > Feature Freeze but I only want to propose and discuss the merits of the > feature, so maybe I or others can invest the time required to achieve this > for the next release. Regards, Sebastian PS: Extra points for sugarizing > aseprite, it's really cool: http://www.aseprite.org/ . Hints and pointers on > where to begin are also welcome. > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > -- > Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- .. manuq .. _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel