On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:03 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>  > .. The only activity shipped with Sugar is a very old version of Turtle 
>>> Art./
>>
>>> Plan Ceibal installed that Sugar 0.87.1, (on Ubuntu 10.04.3) because they 
>>> didn't Know that TurtleArt Runs on
>>> Ubunto+Gnome, they think that running Turtle Art under Sugar is the only 
>>> Way to install it.
>>
>> Turtleart runs under Gnome. Unfortunately later XO OS's hide the Activities 
>> directory and do not allow read access. If you do not have the permissions 
>> or skill you can not then run Turtleart in Gnome.
>>
>> It might be good to include Turtleart with Gnome, in the same way Inkscape, 
>> Gnumeric and Abiword work out of the box. Is this practical?
>
> Indeed it would, I didn't even realise it ran under gnome. Walter, any
> chance of getting a .desktop file shipped as part of the release to
> make it easy to run under gnome, let me know if you want me to help
> get that done.
>
> Peter
>

It already ships with a .desktop file. There is an RPM for TA that is
woefully out of date. I'd love help getting it up to snuff. I guess it
is time for me to finally learn something about packaging.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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