new content bundle

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 22:54:23 EDT 2009


We have a Google Summer of Code project to do exactly that... stay tuned...

-walter

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Rodolfo D. Arce
S.<rodolfoarce at eyuhoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you so much for your help, although i had to read a lot i finally got
> my bundle working just fine
>
> My bundle creates a folder in the Library and integrates excelent into the
> browser
>
> Is there a way to get an icon in the "home" view, so it would look like an
> activity, but it's a louncher for the browser activity in the index page of
> the content?
>
> cheers.. R
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:43 AM, S Page <skierpage at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Rodolfo D. Arce
>> S.<rodolfoarce at eyuhoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I managed to create a bundle.xol but when i can't find the procedure
>> > to install it..
>>
>> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collections#Installing_one_collection> , I
>> just added instructions for installing from USB flash drive and
>> confirmed it works in OLPC 8.2.x.  What software release are you
>> running?
>>
>> >i can manually install it by unziping, but i want to
>> > be able to put it on the schoolserver and get the kids to install from
>> > there
>>
>> That also works fine for me in OLPC release 8.2.0/8.2.1. Make sure the
>> web server specifies the right mime type for .xol, see
>> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Creating_a_collection#Bundle_hosting>
>>
>> > another thing.. Although i can access the files from within the file
>> > system "file:///home/olpc/Library/content/index.html" i can't seem to
>> > be able to put it on the index page of the browser so kids could
>> > access from the menu,
>>
>> That should happen automatically during content bundle installation in
>> OLPC releases with "OLPC Library" as the Browse home page, see
>> <http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library#Developers:_How_it_works>.  Are you
>> running a different language?  Maybe it doesn't work in other
>> languages.
>>
>> This feature doesn't work in Sugar Labs releases,
>> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/574 filed. (My understanding is Sugar
>> Labs plans unification of library and Journal and/or a dedicated
>> Library activity).
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> --
>> =S Page
>
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