#9945 NORM Not Tri: Latest SugarLabs Activities "call home"

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#9945: Latest SugarLabs Activities "call home"
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 Reporter:  mikus         |                 Owner:                                   
     Type:  task          |                Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal        |             Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
Component:  not assigned  |               Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:                |           Next_action:  never set                        
 Verified:  0             |   Deployment_affected:                                   
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 I deliberately disabled my internet connection on an XO-1.5 running os102
 -- then installed Speak-12 (which is listed as working on sugar version
 0.84).  When I tried to launch Speak-12, it attempted to contact the
 sugarlabs site -- and abnormally terminated the activity session (i.e.,
 failed to initialize) because it could not get a connection.  [This same
 failure on first launch (if there is no internet connection) occurs also
 if instead I try the latest Cartoonbuilder Activity from SugarLabs.]

 If there exists a connection to the internet at the time when one of these
 "new type" activities is first launched, that Activity eventually does
 launch correctly -- and continues to launch thereafter, even if the
 internet has again been disconnected.

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 This is not a problem that needs to be addressed now.  I opened this
 ticket to DOCUMENT the existence of this situation.

 However, thought ought to be given to:  "What if users install Activities
 (e.g., from an USB stick) while at a location where there is no connection
 to the internet?  Is it acceptable for such newly installed Activities to
 fail to run *because* there is no internet connection?"

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9945>
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