On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Morgan Collett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 17:15, Sayamindu Dasgupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> What would be the best way to launch any activity from another >> activity ? An example where this is required would be #8774 where >> teachers from Uruguay are complaining that they are not being able to >> directly open hyperlinks embedded in PDFs from Read. >> Ideally when the user clicks on the link, Browse should start and show >> the relevant page. >> I wrote a small utility called sugar-open yesterday, similar to >> gnome-open and xdg-open, where you pass any uri to the tool, and it >> will try to open it with the first relevant Activity it can find. I'm >> planning to make Read invoke sugar-open and launch Browse if required. >> Is there any better way to do this ? >> Thanks, >> Sayamindu > > Uruguay is currently using a pre-Rainbow build, so this should work. > > The alternative, under Rainbow, is to do what Chat does: create a > journal entry with a mime-type of text/uri-list, and call > show_object_in_journal to switch to the journal view of that object so > it can be launched with a click: > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=chat-activity;a=blob;f=pippy_app.py#l512 > > Hopefully Rainbow will grow a mechanism for activities to request it > to launch other activities given certain restrictions. > > Regards > Morgan >
I did some experiments, and there's a way to launch stuff even under rainbow (it's an ugly hack though). You can install sugar-open from http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8817 and use os.system('sugar-open www.laptop.org') from Read, for instance to launch Browse. (One needs to be careful with the uri). Cheers, Sayamindu -- Sayamindu Dasgupta [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
