[sugar] content bundle development

Sun Oct 5 14:50:56 EDT 2008

Given the annoying behaviour of the bundle that seems like a good idea. 
But I did like the idea of integrating the pdf with the browser library 
stuff. 

The idea was to distribute school manuals in pdf, each as a xol bundle 
and have the children download that. Before trying the procedure, I 
expected that once downloaded, the manuals would show up in the browser 
and clicking on a name would start the reader. No fuss.

Philippe

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On Sunday 05 October 2008 13:03:51 Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 5 Oct 2008, at 17:48, Walter Bender wrote:
> > You should only need an index.html file that points to your PDF.
> >
> > <html>
> > <meta http-equiv="refresh"
> > content="0;url=file:///home/olpc/Library/[bundle name]/[PDF
> > name].pdf">
> > </html>
> >
> > In the library/library.info file, there should be an activity_start
> > entry as per:
> >
> > activity_start = index.html
> >
> > In theory, make_index.py reads this line from the info file when
> > generating its index.
>
> Philippe, why not just distribute the pdf, as a pdf? What benefit is
> there in making a single pdf into Library bundle (unless you're just
> testing the process)?
>
> I must admit to not liking some of the old Library content, much of
> it Browse just copies into the Journal, then you have to resume the
> new pdf entry with Read, if you forget something is a pdf and have
> already viewed it, you end up with multiple copies in the Journal.
> Seems a bit backwards to me, I guess it makes the Library interface a
> zip archive utility for installing pdfs into the Journal.
>
> Apologies if you were just testing the bundle process.
>
> --Gary