Adding new Activities via RPM

Bryan Kearney bkearney at redhat.com
Thu Nov 20 15:45:34 UTC 2008


Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> Here actually http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ being an upstream issue...
> 
> Marco
> 
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Bryan Kearney <bkearney at redhat.com>
>>> 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?
>>> Probably sugar should use inotify to detect new installations...
>>> Ticket at d.s.o please :)
>> Will do.. do you want it here: http://dev.laptop.org/newticket
>>
>> -- bk

Actually... a ticket was already created:

http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/43

-- bk




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