[sugar] Activity launching changes

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Oct 8 10:55:47 EDT 2007


On Oct 8, 2007, at 16:49 , Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> On Oct 8, 2007, at 16:39 , Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>
>> On 10/8/07, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 8, 2007, at 16:02 , Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10/8/07, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>>>> No idea, I did not quite get how the new regime works. Could you
>>>>> please explain it at
>>>>>
>>>>>         http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_DBus_API
>>>>
>>>> Well, I'm not sure it make sense to explain it there, since DBus is
>>>> not involved in it anymore.
>>>
>>> This page is the only existing low-level documentation of what an
>>> activity is. We can certainly rename it, but this is the place where
>>> it needs to be documented. If you don't do it, I will have to
>>> reverse-
>>> engineer Sugar again and document it. Wouldn't be the first time.
>>
>> I updated your page. It was just removing the informations about the
>> factory and integrating the exec command explanation from
>> Activity_bundles.
>
> Thanks. Doesn't sound too complicated :)
>
> Wouldn't it be better to pass the bundle_id (== service_name) as an
> argument, too?

Also - that now is only the bundle identifier and not the service  
name, because there is no DBus service anymore. So that field in  
activity.info should be renamed, and the description changed to not  
refer to DBus anymore:

	http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activity_bundles

- Bert -




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