Hello everyone: >From the meeting notes and Bert suggestion I have what could be called the version 2 of this feature, greatly simplified and complies with everyones rightful suggestions.
To avoid spaming (for some time) the sugar-devel ML I will post the patches just here: sugar: http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/sugar/0001-Examples-objects-support-V2.patch sugar-toolkit: http://www.sugarlabs.org/~tch/patches/examples/sugar-toolkit/0001-Examples_path-activity-info.patch Feedback is welcome! tch On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Martin Abente < [email protected]> wrote: > I don't see why not, we can achieve both things :). Maybe someone have > another opinion regarding this? > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 2012-08-21, at 20:17, Martin Abente wrote: >> >> > The design I implemented works like this: >> > >> > a. activity developers or deployments add a new "examples" folder >> inside the activity bundle with their examples objects. >> > b. when the activity starts, the example folder will be accessible >> through the journal as new volume option, and also from __any__ >> ObjectChooser. >> > c. Only one volume button will be shown, even when many instances of >> the activity are running. >> > d. The example folder will disappear from the journal when the last >> instance is closed. >> > [...] >> > Waiting for more feedback... :) >> >> And in another thread: >> >> >> instead of a magic directory name, couldn't the activity.info file >> have a new entry giving the examples path? >> > >> >> > What I tried, or I am trying, to do is to make this feature available >> as easy as we can, so even deployments could add their own examples with >> very little technical knowledge requirements. That why I try this >> convention (magical) idea. >> >> >> Okay, so by default it should look for a directory named "examples". But >> maybe a different path could be set in activity.info? >> >> - Bert - >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > >
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