[sugar] 9.1 proposal: View source key everywhere
pgf at laptop.org
pgf at laptop.org
Thu Oct 23 10:19:38 EDT 2008
bert wrote:
>
> Am 23.10.2008 um 15:33 schrieb pgf at laptop.org:
>
> > bert wrote:
> >> Am 23.10.2008 um 15:15 schrieb pgf at laptop.org:
> >>
> >>> an addition to activity.info, with sensible defaults, would be the
> >>> best bet, i think.
> >>
> >> This would mean that sometimes the shell and sometimes the activity
> >> would have to handle that key, which is fragile. I'd opt for the
> >> shell
> >> always handling the key, then trying to invoke the activity's view
> >> source function, and if that fails, handle it itself.
> >>
> >> That "not handled by activity" case could of course be customized by
> >> entries in activity.info.
> >
> > sure, that's fine. but i think we need to keep thinking about
> > how to support of non-, or not-fully-sugarized applications with
> > every new feature we do (as well as with every revision of old
> > features).
>
> Right. Hence the fallback to the default viewer if the activity does
> not implement that (or any) DBus method. Or did I misunderstand you?
sorry i wasn't more clear -- we're in complete agreement. (it
was when you said "add a method to the dbus activity protocol"
that you pushed my "Must Defend Traditional Apps" button. :-)
paul
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paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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