174
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 86:
Line 86: + + + +
Development Team/Almanac/Activity Bundles (view source)
Revision as of 14:53, 27 August 2008
, 14:53, 27 August 2008→.info File Format: expand on bundle_id, from "Re: XO activity bundle .info format" mail thread on devel@laptop.org
bundle_id = com.redhat.Sugar.BrowserActivity
bundle_id = com.redhat.Sugar.BrowserActivity
: This is the activity bundle identifier. It is required. The name should conform to the [http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol-names D-Bus spec] - in particular, hyphens are not allowed (although this wasn't enforced in earlier builds, see [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6226 Trac 6226]). It is recommended that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_package#Package_naming_conventions Java package naming conventions] are used when chosing bundle identifiers, to ensure uniqueness. Briefly, your name should begin with the reversed domain name of an organization you belong to. In the Python bindings, the bundle_id is also used as the activity's default service type when the activity is shared on the network. To determine this type, the distinct parts (separated by the '.' character) are reversed, any '.' is replaced by a '_' character, and the type is prefixed by a '_' character. So in this example, the default service type would be "_BrowserActivity_Sugar_redhat_com".
: This is the activity bundle identifier. It is required. The name should conform to the [http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol-names D-Bus spec] - in particular, hyphens are not allowed (although this wasn't enforced in earlier builds, see [http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/6226 Trac 6226]). It is recommended that [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_package#Package_naming_conventions Java package naming conventions] are used when chosing bundle identifiers, to ensure uniqueness. Briefly, your name should begin with the reversed domain name of an organization you belong to. In the Python bindings, the bundle_id is also used as the activity's default service type when the activity is shared on the network. To determine this type, the distinct parts (separated by the '.' character) are reversed, any '.' is replaced by a '_' character, and the type is prefixed by a '_' character. So in this example, the default service type would be "_BrowserActivity_Sugar_redhat_com".
: The reversed domain name part is supposed to be rooted in some actual DNS-rooted namespace. You don't need to own this domain; you just need to have a reasonable claim on some name at that domain. There are several ways to derive one:
:* If your email address is ''yourname''@''somemailhost''.com, then you could use com.somemailhost.yourname''.''YourActivity''.
:* Setting up a free web host for information about your activity, and using that subdomain is reasonable, too.
:* If nothing else is available, even org.laptop.wiki.''YourActivityPageTitle'' is probably a reasonable bundle_id.
icon = activity-web
icon = activity-web