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| The program that you run using Sugar are called Activities. Why? Because Sugar, in its departure from the desktop metaphor for computing, is the first serious attempt to create a [[Documentation Team/Glossary|user interface]] that is based on both cognitive and social [[wikipedia:Constructivism_%28learning_theory%29| constructivism]]: an environment where learners engage in authentic exploration and collaboration in the act of learning. | | The program that you run using Sugar are called Activities. Why? Because Sugar, in its departure from the desktop metaphor for computing, is the first serious attempt to create a [[Documentation Team/Glossary|user interface]] that is based on both cognitive and social [[wikipedia:Constructivism_%28learning_theory%29| constructivism]]: an environment where learners engage in authentic exploration and collaboration in the act of learning. |
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| ====How can a user start an activity from the command line?==== | | ====Starting an Activity==== |
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| How can a user start an activity from the command line without starting Sugar? Please supply a sample command.
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| Why? I'm tired of digging around for the error logs. I figured I could do something like
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| sugar - run pippy 2>pippyerrors.txt
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| less ~/.sugar/default/logs/org.whatever
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| :Note the above command will take some messing around with to get what you want.
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| user@ubuntu:~/sugar-jhbuild$ ./sugar-jhbuild launch pippy
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| sugar-jhbuild launch: command not found
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| user@ubuntu:~/sugar-jhbuild$ ./sugar-jhbuild sugar - launch pippy
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| sugar-jhbuild sugar: command not found
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| user@ubuntu:~/sugar-jhbuild$ ./sugar-jhbuild pippy
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| sugar-jhbuild pippy: command not found
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| user@ubuntu:~/sugar-jhbuild$ ./sugar-jhbuild run pippy
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| sugar-jhbuild run: Unable to execute the command 'pippy': [Errno 2] No such file or directory
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| And the response.
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| <bemasc> dgd: impossible.
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| <dgd> bemasc, ?
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| <dgd> not possible to run activities from jhbuild is that what you mean bemasc
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| <bemasc> dgd: sugar activities cannot run outside of sugar, and more than a java applet can run outside of the JVM, or a flash applet can run outside of a flash interpreter.
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| <dgd> ok, so running just the activity in sugar?
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| <dgd> just one activity, none of the home stuff etc.
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| <bemasc> also not possible
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| <dgd> I thought for sure I read in the docs that you can run just an activity...
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| <bemasc> by "not possible" I mean "requires you to modify the code for the Sugar shell".
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| < bemasc> You can probably cause Sugar to launch and immediately start an activity. You might be able to do this using a .xsession script.
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| <bemasc> However, users will still be able to bring up the frame and switch to the home view, etc.
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| ====Where are the activities stored?====
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| Some users will find them here:
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| /usr/share/sugar/activities/
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| Jhbuild users will find the activities here:
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| ./install/share/sugar/activities/Calculate.activity/activity
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| ./source/terminal/activity
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| ====Sharing an Activity==== | | ====Sharing an Activity==== |