Re: Running AbiWord in the Sugar Shell

From: Erik Pukinskis <erikpukinskis_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun Jul 30 2006 - 21:39:26 CEST

Martin,

Sure... I'm using an older version of Sugar. I'll upgrade and get a
new patch out soon.

Erik

On 7/29/06, msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
<msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> > 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 Sun Jul 30 21:38:10 2006

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