Web activities

[dnarvaez]

About

A set of javascript libraries which will allow to write native-like sugar activities. Same look and feel and ability to interact with system services like the datastore.

Status

Work in progress.

Tasks

• Add Image preview for web activities in the datastore (Browse has code to get an image from a webview)
• If starting the web activiity as a normal activity, show a sensible error rather than tracing back
• Ensure we don't lose data when closed from the frame.
• Write tests for the bus private API.
• Read title and description from the datastore when activity starts (in progress by Suraj)
• Write title and description to the datastore when activity loose focus or stop (in progress by Suraj) 
• Text entry: optional actionable buttons inside the entry, on both sides. (one side is done http://sugarlabs.github.io/sugar-web-samples/iconinputtext.html)
• Text entry: invert the order of the buttons in RTL (right to left) languages.
• Palette header: optional icon on left side (or right if RTL language).
• Palette: actionable items, menu
• Palette: optional icon on left side of actioable items (or right if RTL language).
• Combo box. Must be a custom component, manuq tried styling <select><option> but failed.
• ActivityPalette with title entry and description entry (in progress by Suraj).
• Icon lookup by name: given an icon name, get its path or data. In GTK activities it works like this: first it looks in icons/ folder inside the activity, then it looks in icons/ folder in the toolkit.
• Investigate how can we expose the LESS variables (color names and sizes) to the activity developer

gwebsockets

• Good test coverage.

HTML Activity logging

• logging of the Python part
• logging of the JS part, http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkitgtk/stable/webkitgtk-webkitwebview.html#WebKitWebView-console-message console message signal not yet available in WK2 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79918 UPDATE: landed in WK2 2.1.1 (a development release)

[icarito]

Interesting items here... I wonder where you went! Thanks for all your contribution to Sugar.