Talk:Read Etexts: Difference between revisions
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I think eventually Read will take over the functions of View Slides and Read Etexts by making modifications to evince. That's the only way I can see it working. |
I think eventually Read will take over the functions of View Slides and Read Etexts by making modifications to evince. That's the only way I can see it working. |
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== Permission bug == |
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See trac #8648. Editing this activity's .py file does not result in changed behavior. this is due to permissions not being set to allow others than owner to read the file. |
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* chmod +r ReadEtextsActivity.py |
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and thing work. This should be changed in the bundle. |
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Revision as of 02:43, 28 September 2008
Do you use this activity? Got gripes, praise, or other feedback? Put it here.
Bundle Read and Read Etexts as one Read activity
Is it too much of a hack if the Read activity had both yours and the evince program inside, launching each one depending on the file being opened?HoboPrimate 16:47, 7 May 2008 (EDT)
Regrettably it is. Activities pretty much have to set up their user interface BEFORE they receive the file they are to read. It is for this reason that View Slides and Read Etexts are separate programs, even though they share a fair amount of code and both can handle Zip files.
I think eventually Read will take over the functions of View Slides and Read Etexts by making modifications to evince. That's the only way I can see it working.
Permission bug
See trac #8648. Editing this activity's .py file does not result in changed behavior. this is due to permissions not being set to allow others than owner to read the file.
- chmod +r ReadEtextsActivity.py
and thing work. This should be changed in the bundle.