Chris wrote > * Continue to have (all) activities present in Joyride builds. I was asked to describe how I see Activity precedence affecting me.
I dual-boot my G1G1 - one build is "the public will see this" (e.g., Update.1) and the other build is "development" (e.g., Joyride). I customize these builds (which takes time), so I don't install *every* Joyride build that comes along. Used to be that every kind of build carried its Activities in /usr/share -- when I booted a different build, I got access to *its* activities. Now Update.1 builds expect all their Activities (except for Journal) in /home/olpc (which is NOT replaced when I boot a different build). Supposing that I want to segregate "public" Activities from "development" Activities, what are now my options ? -------- If /usr/share/activities has precedence over /home/olpc/Activities, I can keep any uniquely "development" Activities in /usr/share in Joyride. When I boot Joyride, they take precedence over the Update.1 Activities in /home/olpc. When I boot Update.1, *its* /usr/share is empty (except for Journal), so the "public" Activities in /olpc/home are the ones which are accessed. Everything works. [I started this particular discussion with a request for information about the "correct" way to individually add Activities to /usr/share -- in particular, do I need to do something to keep rainbow happy? ] -------- On my system /home/olpc/Activities will keep "officially released" Activities. If /home/<user_directory>/Activities has precedence over /usr/share/activities, then where to put any uniquely "development" Activities (that I want to run under Joyride)? Quickest way appears to be to define a __new__ user (different from 'olpc'). When I log on with that new_user_id, the system will be looking in /home/new_user_id/Activities - that's where I can put all "Joyride" Activities, while leaving /home/olpc/Activities untouched. -------- As you can see, if Joyride continues to have all activities present in /usr/share/activities (and if that takes precedence over /home/olpc/Activities), it makes installing my dual-boot setup easy. If Joyride builds continue to supply activities, but as a separate package, there is the matter of where to install the Joyride provided Activities vs. the "officially available" Activities. mikus _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
