Changing the Favorite Activities

[T Gillett]

Hi All

Just an update on this in case it is useful to others.

Following Jerry's suggestion, I wrote a script (stored on USB) that
installs a new version of the file:

    /usr/share/sugar/data/activities.defaults

containing the set of activites that we want, and also removes (renames)
the file:

   /home/olpc/.sugar/default/favorite_activities

On rebooting, the favorite_activities file is recreated from the new
activities.defaults
and we get just the list of favorites in the Ring that we want. No other
user interaction is required.

Regards
Terry



On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 13:52 +1000, T Gillett wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I would like to be able to change the set of activities shown in the
> > ring of the home view via a script in order to set up a batch of XO-1
> > and XO-1.5 devices.
> >
> > Previously this was possible by changing the file
> >     /home/olpc/.sugar/default.favorite_activities
> >
> > However in the current stable release this no longer works. If the
> > file is changed, it is replaced with the default list on restart.
> >
> > Is there another mechanism available to achieve this in the current
> > release?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
>
> Think the file you want is:
>
> /usr/share/sugar/data/activities.defaults
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
>
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