User:Follower

(Obsolete) Notes on making a OLPC Sugar activity

cp -r /usr/share/activities/GroupChat.activity /usr/share/activities/HelloWorld.activity

cd /usr/share/activities/HelloWorld.activity

vi activity/activity.info

##### activity.info ######
[Activity]
name = HelloWorld
activity_version = 1
host_version = 1
icon = activity-chat
service_name = com.rancidbacon.HelloWorld
exec = sugar-activity-factory chatactivity.ChatActivity
show_launcher = 1
##########################

killall X # <-- This forces frame to rescan and find activity. (Or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace)

mv activity/activity-chat.svg activity/activity-hello.svg

mv chatactivity.py helloactivity.py

# change:  icon = activity-hello

# change:  exec = sugar-activity-factory helloactivity.HelloActivity

vi helloactivity.py