Sebastian, This seems like a very elegant solution that provides greater flexibility in invoking Sugar, very nice indeed.
cjl On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 3:57 AM, Sebastian Silva <sebast...@fuentelibre.org> wrote: > Hi friends, > > I've been wishing to be able to nicely run Activities from a regular > desktop for a while. > > So I patched sugar-toolkit-gtk3 to allow for this (patch at > https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/315 ) > > The patch allows to run Activities by using the sugar-activity script. > I've tested this in Gnome, XFCE and Sugar itself. > > In order to use it I created a small notification tray applet that allows > to start activities and even invoke journal items: > (the menu is coming from clicking on the Sugar Labs "S" Logo) > View Source menu item will open the system file manager pointed to the > Activity path. > > source at: > https://github.com/icarito/sugar-launcher-applet > > This patch to sugar-toolkit-gtk3 does not affect operation under Sugar. > Might we even consider bundling the applet with sugar? > > The reflection logic is to provide a path-to-adolescence without such a > steep disconnect between Sugar and Gnome. > Also as a help for developers to keep Activities in mind without need for > an emulator. > > This is the result of scratching an old itch. I'll love to hear your > comments! > Also I created a Feature page at > https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/FreeDesktop_integration > > Sugar on, > > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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