#4633 NORM Never A: Activities with create_jobject=False do not have a name in the ring.

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#4633: Activities with create_jobject=False do not have a name in the ring.
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 Reporter:  bemasc  |       Owner:  marco         
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  sugar   |     Version:                
 Keywords:          |    Verified:  0             
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 Some Activities serve simply to present the user with a small piece of
 information, and the user interacts with them passively.  There is no
 point logging in the Journal each time the user accesses the Activity.
 For example, in the case of the Clock activity, it would be silly to
 create a Journal entry every time the user checks what time it is.

 Sugar already provides a mechanism for such activities.  Any activity
 instantiated with create_jobject=False in the activity.Activity
 constructor will not have Journal objects created automatically.  This is
 good.  However, Activities created in this manner do not have a working
 metadata attribute, and therefore appear in the ring with no title.  In
 the case of Clock, I was able to hack around this by instantiating my own
 datastore.DSMetadata object, but this is an ugly, incomplete solution.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/4633>
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