[sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere

[pgf at laptop.org]

bert wrote:
 > 
 > Am 23.10.2008 um 15:33 schrieb pgf at laptop.org:
 > 
 > > bert wrote:
 > >> Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb pgf at laptop.org:
 > >>
 > >>> an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the
 > >>> best bet, i think.
 > >>
 > >> This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the activity
 > >> would have to handle that key, which is fragile. I'd opt for the  
 > >> shell
 > >> always handling the key, then trying to invoke the activity's view
 > >> source function, and if that fails, handle it itself.
 > >>
 > >> That "not handled by activity" case could of course be customized by
 > >> entries in activity.info.
 > >
 > > sure, that's fine.  but i think we need to keep thinking about
 > > how to support of non-, or not-fully-sugarized applications with
 > > every new feature we do (as well as with every revision of old
 > > features).
 > 
 > Right. Hence the fallback to the default viewer if the activity does  
 > not implement that (or any) DBus method. Or did I misunderstand you?

sorry i wasn't more clear -- we're in complete agreement.  (it
was when you said "add a method to the dbus activity protocol"
that you pushed my "Must Defend Traditional Apps" button.  :-)

paul
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 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org