Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:19 PM, C. Scott Ananian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sure, that's fine. but i think we need to keep thinking about how to support of non-, or not-fully-sugarized applications with every new feature we do (as well

9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
Hi, I think that with a small effort, we could implement something much better than what we have today. We have glorious plans for the view source key, but as no resources have been devoted to them, perhaps we should scale back and make sure that we provide the best we can today. And let the

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Walter Bender
I think that any activity that goes to the trouble of building their own view source mechanism can handle the added overhead of adding a line to the activity.info file. Seems like that is the easiest path. Doesn't it have any negative repercussions in the long term? -walter On Thu, Oct 23, 2008

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread pgf
tomeu -- excellent! thanks for helping make progress on this. tomeu wrote: http://dev.laptop.org/~tomeu/viewsource.py This approach has a good thing that is that works everywhere, but has a major problem: doesn't let activities override it and handle themselves the view source key

Re: 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.10.2008 um 14:53 schrieb Tomeu Vizoso: Hi, I think that with a small effort, we could implement something much better than what we have today. We have glorious plans for the view source key, but as no resources have been devoted to them, perhaps we should scale back and make sure

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread pgf
bert wrote: Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the best bet, i think. This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the activity would have to handle that key, which is fragile. I'd opt for

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread Bert Freudenberg
Am 23.10.2008 um 15:33 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: bert wrote: Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the best bet, i think. This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the activity would have to handle

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread pgf
bert wrote: Am 23.10.2008 um 15:33 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: bert wrote: Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the best bet, i think. This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the

Re: [sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

2008-10-23 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sure, that's fine. but i think we need to keep thinking about how to support of non-, or not-fully-sugarized applications with every new feature we do (as well as with every revision of old features). I've got a half-baked idea about