#9189 NORM Not Tri: Cannot launch a Sugar activity from the Terminal

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#9189: Cannot launch a Sugar activity from the Terminal
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 Reporter:  ssb22         |                 Owner:               
     Type:  enhancement   |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal        |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  not assigned  |               Version:  not specified
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 Verified:  0             |   Deployment_affected:               
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 I could not find any way to launch a Sugar activity from the command line
 in the Terminal, nor to launch the Sugar activity associated with a given
 file from the command line.

 This has a number of consequences:

 (1) Accessibility.  Launching Sugar activities from the GUI is currently
 done by means of the mouse.  People with limited vision and/or dexterity
 find keyboard commands much easier to handle than mouse icon selection.
 Although it may take a little longer to learn to begin with, being able to
 type "launch browse" or "launch write" would be easier than having to
 identify and click the appropriate icon.

 (2) It is not possible to write a simple program that, for example,
 produces an HTML file and launches Browse to view it.

 (3) If you use the Terminal to browse a directory structure with "cd" and
 "ls", and find a file you want to look at, you cannot then type a simple
 command to look at that file, but you have to go to the Journal and
 navigate to it from there (and it's not always obvious how to do this).

 A command-line launcher could be a very useful addition to the Sugar
 environment.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9189>
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