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Diffstat (limited to 'sugar/activity/bundleregistry.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | sugar/activity/bundleregistry.py | 19 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sugar/activity/bundleregistry.py b/sugar/activity/bundleregistry.py index 7b12492..58b1700 100644 --- a/sugar/activity/bundleregistry.py +++ b/sugar/activity/bundleregistry.py @@ -15,8 +15,25 @@ def _get_data_dirs(): return [ '/usr/local/share/', '/usr/share/' ] class _ServiceManager(object): + """Internal class responsible for creating dbus service files + + DBUS services are defined in files which bind a service name + to the name of an executable which provides the service name. + + In Sugar, the service files are automatically generated from + the activity registry (by this class). When an activity's + dbus launch service is requested, dbus will launch the + specified executable in order to allow it to provide the + requested activity-launching service. + + In the case of activities which provide a "class", instead of + an "exec" attribute in their activity.info, the + sugar-activity-factory script is used with an appropriate + argument to service that bundle. + """ + SERVICE_DIRECTORY = '~/.local/share/dbus-1/services' def __init__(self): - service_dir = os.path.expanduser('~/.local/share/dbus-1/services') + service_dir = os.path.expanduser(self.SERVICE_DIRECTORY) if not os.path.isdir(service_dir): os.makedirs(service_dir) |