Bert, It doesn't _have_ to change; if people generally prefer to be started in SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH (rather than in SUGAR_ACTIVITY_ROOT) then we can easily accomodate them.
Is starting in SBP better, then? Michael On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:12:28PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:51 , Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > > > >Michael Stone wrote: > >>>I note that Clock doesn't work at all (Stays in "Starting..." > >>>forever), > >> > >>If you look at /home/olpc/.sugar/default/logs/shell.log you'll see > >>that > >>Clock is crashing during startup trying to find 'clock.svg'. > > > >Heads up to Activity developers: this is because Activities can no > >longer > >assume that they are started in the $SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH directory. > > Ugh. Why? The reason for having $SUGAR_BUNDLE_PATH be the Activity's > cwd is to make it easy for developers to access resources in the > bundle with relative path names. Why would that need to change under > rainbow?! > > - Bert - > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel