Activity Team/Control Panel

There are several things to keep in mind when adding a new section to the Sugar Control panel.


 * Add you code to sugar/extensions/cpsection in a subdirectory specific to your section
 * Make sure to add your new section to sugar/extensions/cpsection/Makefile.am
 * Make sure to add your new section to sugar/configure.ac
 * Put the icon for your section in sugar/data/icons
 * Make sure to add your icon to sugar/data/icons/Makefile.am

Your section subdirectory should contain a minimum of four files:


 * Makefile.am
 * __init__.py
 * view.py
 * model.py

__init__.py should contain CLASS, ICON, TITLE, and KEYWORDS CLASS = 'Touchpad' ICON = 'module-touchpad' TITLE = _('Touchpad') KEYWORDS = ['touchpad']

If you want to make the appearance of section conditional, for example, for a specific hardware architecture, then simply add a conditional as per:

if path.exists('/sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/ptmode'): CLASS = 'Touchpad' ICON = 'module-touchpad' TITLE = _('Touchpad') KEYWORDS = ['touchpad']

In the above example, the path only exists for OLPC XO-1 CL1 hardware, which is the only hardware for which this particular section is relevant.