User:Alsroot/trash/Activity as a regular Journal Object
Summary
Use Journal objects to represent activities.
Owner
- Name: Aleksey Lim
- Email: send an email
Current status
- Targeted release: 0.86
- Last updated: Tue Jul 28 04:32:53 UTC 2009
- Percentage of completion: 0%
Detailed Description
The problems that 0.84 has in case of activity versions are:
- it can't upgrade activities if they were pre-installed from native packages; it makes process of upgrading activities from .xo impossible
- sugar can have only one activity version installed at the same time; at the same time it could be useful to have several versions simultaneously e.g. to start proper version when join request arrived(activity version of arrived request could be different to installed version)
- why not treat activities as a regular sugar(Journal) objects
What sugar can do to fix these issues:
- scan /usr/share/sugar/activities and ~/Activities directories at startup(like it does at present) to get list of pre-installed activities - it makes sense in case of LTSP or when sugar user develops activities(in that case its useful to store them in ~/Activities)
- pre-installed activities could be represented by Journal entry(in fact pre-installed activities and Journal entry could be treated as special case of object bundles with activities)
- at the and sugar has all activities/activity-versions in Journal(pre-installed and installed from object bundles)
- Home view is a subset of Journal(in case of browsing objects) and will let users run last version of particular activity(or selected version); btw we can have in Home view's list not only activity objects but any object
- when join request arrived, sugar runs proper version of activity or download(if it doesn't exist) from user or ASLO
Benefit to Sugar
What is the benefit to the platform? If this is a major capability update, what has changed? If this is a new feature, what capabilities does it bring? Why will Sugar become a better platform or project because of this feature?
Scope
- rework activity registry code in sugar
- migrate Home view to Journal
- code to auto-load proper activity version(while joining) if it doesn't exist
How To Test
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- What are the expected results of those actions?
User Experience
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Dependencies
Glucose dependencies.
Contingency Plan
None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.
Documentation
Release Notes
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