#10822 NORM 11.2.0-: Invitations sent to laptops without an Activity installed are not handled very cleanly

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#10822: Invitations sent to laptops without an Activity installed are not handled
very cleanly
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 Reporter:  greenfeld      |                 Owner:  erikos                           
     Type:  defect         |                Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal         |             Milestone:  11.2.0-M4                        
Component:  sugar          |               Version:  Development build as of this date
 Keywords:  collaboration  |           Next_action:  diagnose                         
 Verified:  0              |   Deployment_affected:                                   
Blockedby:                 |              Blocking:                                   
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 1. Have laptop A start an activity which is sharable but not installed on
 laptop B.
  2. Send an invitation from the Network or Friends View of laptop A to
 laptop B to join a shared session lead by laptop A of that activity.

 Expected: Some sort of error message in the GUI telling User A and/or B
 that we cannot join the activity because it is not installed, preferably
 using the proper user-friendly name for the activity and not its Sugar-
 internal name.  (Telling User A what is or is not installed on a remote
 system might be a bit of a security risk though.)

 Actual: We see an "unknown" (gray circle) icon flash on laptop B asking us
 to join the activity.  If one looks in the frame on laptop B in the list
 of activities, said icon also appears with the Sugar-internal name (such
 as org.laptop.HelloWorld) as the activity to potentially join.  Attempting
 to accept the invite and join the activity results in the icon
 disappearing from the Frame and nothing happening apart from an exception
 logged to Sugar's shell.log.

 Seen in 11.2.0 os15.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10822>
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