[sugar] [PATCH] Merge activities.default into favorites.

[Tomeu Vizoso]

[re-adding sugar to cc]

2008/5/12 Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com>:
> I glanced at this, and I *think* that it does what I want it to, but I
>  wanted to clarify.  (The comment "# Activities to be automatically
>  added to the ring after an upgrade" worried me).
>
>  What I expect this to do is merge a list of specified default
>  activities D with a list of favorite activities F, such that the ring
>  contains F ∪ D, where F is the up to date list of user chosen
>  favorites and D is a list of defaults as specified /by the latest
>  upgrade/.  So I guess a clear point I'm questioning is if the
>  activities.defaults is a) specified by the countries at time of
>  customization and b) read from an "activity pack" upon future updates,
>  such that it is not actually a hard coded list (except, perhaps, as a
>  default when no other list has been provided via the above methods).

Yes, the activities.defaults file is read and merged in the way you
describe every time it changes. This will happen in the scenarios you
mentioned.

>  It also appears that that the implementation performs the merge of F
>  and D once each time a new defaults file appears (via an activity pack
>  update), which is desired behavior, but I just wanted to confirm that.

Right.

>  PS.  Can someone give me a clearer idea of the "activity pack" and how
>  they actually work?  My personal interpretation of the idea is that it
>  consists a bundle of activity bundles, and a file which specifies the
>  new activities.defaults.  I furthermore assume that the
>  activities.defaults file included should *only* reference activities
>  included in the activity pack.  Could I get confirmation on this?

Yes, this is my understanding as well, although I have no first-hand
info on that.

Thanks,

Tomeu