Adding new Activities via RPM

[Bryan Kearney]

Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> 
>> If you add a new activity via a yum update, you have to restart sugar 
>> for it to appear on the desktop (or, to appear on the list so you can 
>> put it on the desktop). Combine that with the fact there is no logout 
>> for Sugar, you are left with either a restart (reboot) or 
>> Ctrl-alt-backspace.
>>
>> I understand you can download .xo files from a website. Are these 
>> automatically added to the desktop? If so, is there some code or 
>> script which we can put in an rpm %post section to make them appear?
> 
> In Sugar, when you download an Activity, it shows up both in the Journal 
> and on the Launcher basically immediately -- but that's because it shows 
> up, I think, in the user's homedir.  Activities can run either from the 
> systemwide activity space -- which is where RPM puts them -- or the 
> local user space, which is where the activity goes when a user downloads 
> it.
> 
> Not sure I've answered your question though, heh.

No.. you did not :)

There is some incantation to tell sugar to refresh the activities. If we 
  could put that in the rpm (or at least doco it) it would make 
installing a much more pleasant activity.

-- bk