Features/Revised Browse default-bookmarks.html

Comments and Explanations:

• Point Sugar.Browse default "start new" screen to:

file:///usr/share/bookmarks/default-bookmarks.html

• instead of sugars's default:

file:///usr/share/sugar/activities/Browse.activity/data/index.html

Summary

Point the "start new" default Browse start-up page to the page that is downloaded from fedora repository.fedora-bookmarks-13-1.noarch.rpm 5.4 kB

Owner

• Name: [Tom Gilliard]

• Email: satellit@bendbroadband.com

Current status

• Targeted release: V4
• Last updated: (06/09/2010)
• Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

In a discussion with Peter Robinson last night I discovered that a custom Browse bookmark can be downloaded from the fedora repository. I propose to use this "Feature" to allow a custom set of bookmarts to be maintained that would have a series of links ie: e-books; Floss Manuals; wiki.sugarlabs.org, (maybe all of the proposed links to files in SugarCreationKit DVD)+ The NormalBrowse Google Screen

• This should be a simple edit in Browse to point to file:///usr/share/bookmarks/default-bookmarks.html instead of file:///usr/share/sugar/activities/Browse.activity/data/index.html.

• Repointing the default-screen allows us to have fedora supply our revised "Start New" screen ( or maybe several depending on the deployment or schools requirements to Soas v4)

Benefit to Sugar

A simple enhancement to sugar.browse

Scope

Edit the Browse activity

UI Design

Does the feature have a direct impact on the work flow, or does it need a UI? Link here mockups, or add detailed descriptions.

How To Test

In a terminal (the Terminal Activity works):

Move to the folder with the file for the default Browse homepage.

cd /usr/share/sugar/activities/Browse.activity/data

Back up your current Browse start page by renaming it to index.html.bak.

mv index.html index.html.bak

Download the sample index.html file from http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Modified-Browse.html

wget http://url/to/index.html

Start the Browse Activity. It should open to a page of custom links, rather than the normal Browse start page. Try clicking on a few links. If they go to the webpages indicated, the feature is working.

To undo your testing and restore the previous Browse default start page, change the filenames back so that the old file is once again named index.html.

mv index.html modified-bookmarks.html
mv index.html.bak index.html

User Experience

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Dependencies

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Contingency Plan

Alternate path: edit /usr/share/sugar/activities/Browse.activity/data/index.html. This would allow sugarlabs to maintain the list.

• the Browse.xo on ASLO would also need to be changed

Documentation

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