Re: Running AbiWord in the Sugar Shell

> Hi all,
>
> It's still a bit of a hack, but for those interested, here are the
> other bits necessary to actually run AbiWord in the Sugar shell:
>
> 1) Apply the patches I sent out in the previous mail
> 2) compile AbiWord with the --enable-sugar flag
> 3) Apply erikpukinskis-sugarpatch-2006-07-25-1143.diff to
> sugar/shell/StartPage.py

Hi Erik,
       StartPage.py so longer exists in suger. Can you update toa recent
build, (maybe jhbuild?), provide new instructions?

I built AbiWord-suger but can't test it without these fixes.

Thsnks!

Martin

> 4) unzip wordprocessor.activity.tar.gz into your Activities folder
> 5) Rebuild sugar
> 6) Run the new AbiWord. You should see the splash screen, but no
> AbiWord window.
> 7) Copy the "Plug ID" that it writes to the console, and paste it into
> WordProcessorActivity.py in the Activities/WordProcessor folder you
> created. It goes on line 58 (i.e. socket.add_id(50331699))
> 8) Run sugar. On my machine I have to wait for it to "Fail to
> retrieve buddy icon" three times before I click the AbiWord button.
> Not sure what that's all about yet.
>
> Anyway, as I said, it's still a bit hackish. I need to figure out how
> to start abiword from within Sugar, and retrieve the plug ID (via
> DBus?) to make steps 6&7 obsolete.
>
> Erik
>
Received on Sat Jul 29 12:37:22 2006