[Fwd: Re: Odd occurance when installing 764]

[Gary C Martin]

On 28 Sep 2008, at 14:30, Aaron Konstam wrote:

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
> To: Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>
> Subject: Re: Odd occurance when installing 764
> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:28:49 -0500
>
> On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 23:47 +0100, Gary C Martin wrote:
>> On 27 Sep 2008, at 21:30, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>
>>> After installing 764, in circle mode I had an icon for the  
>>> calculator
>>> activity, but it would not run successfully. Switching to line  
>>> mode I
>>> found the calculator had not been designated as a favorite. When I
>>> made
>>> it a favorite I had two calculator icons in circle mode of the home
>>> page. The second (new one) ran successfully. When I erased the first
>>> one
>>> I had one calculator icon that ran correctly. A similar experience
>>> occurred for me in 757 with a different Application.
>>>
>>> I don't know why I seem to have all the really strange experiences.
>>> Just
>>> lucky I guess:-)
>>
>> I've not seen this myself after an upgrade, what did you upgrade  
>> from?
>> Is it possible you had (some) activities installed in the 'system'
>> place** rather than /home/olpc/Activities? I've seen 2 activity icons
>> for what looks like the same application in that situation.
>>
>> ** /usr/share/sugar/activities/ is the current 'system' place  
>> (Journal
>> should now be the only activity there I think).
>>
>> --Gary
> I upgraded from 760. When I look the activities are
> in /home/olpc/Activities except fot this strangeness:
> 1. In the directory there is a Calculate as well as a Calc activity  
> with
> the same icon. Calc does not run correctly.
> 2. There is another Journal Activity in that directory as well as in
> the /usr/share/sugar/activities directory.
>
> What does that mean?

Aaron, this sounds like some cruft you've accumulated over the months  
(or a ~year) from long past OS builds. Calc was a very (very) early  
version for what is now known as Calculate. As for having a Journal  
Activity in your home, that also sounds potentially like some old  
behaviour. Everything in /home/olpc is kept (mostly) from harms way  
during OS upgrades, so your user data is persistent between upgrades,  
these items probably go way back in your XO's history.

If you want to clean up shop, I'd say /home/olpc/Activities/ 
Calc.activity can be deleted, as can home/olpc/Activities/ 
Journal.activity.

To Michael: Not sure who to direct this to, but should the post  
install scripts do some extra checks for this potential upgrade fluff?  
Not sure how many upgrades this could effect.

--Gary