id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	distribution	status_field
574	Sugar lacks OLPC's dynamic content library	skierpage	tomeu	"In bug #1, cwhii laments ''expected ""OLPC Library"" with a list of libraries to pick from.''

That bug somehow turned into ""Add support to Browse for distro-customised start page"" and was upstreamed to Ubuntu.  But whether or not Ubuntu has a start page, and whether or not Browse can be configured to show it (BTW Browse's webactivity.py hardcodes it to _LIBRARY_PATH = '/usr/share/library-common/index.html'), that won't bring back the OLPC Library functionality of an expanding directory of local content that you've installed.  My Rawhide-XO 20090316 build is also missing this functionality.

The ""OLPC Library"" home page relies on running scripts that rebuild a web page whenever you download and run a [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collection .xol collection bundle].  That's what gives you a ""library page"" that gives you an expanding directory of local content that you've installed.

That library machinery lived in /usr/share/library-common in OLPC release 8.2.0.  It is missing or broken in Sugar 0.84.0 on Rawhide-XO.  I think it resided in the RPM package olpc-library-common, source in http://dev.laptop.org/git/library/library-activity/tree/ library-common subdirectory.

This machinery builds a new home page out of templates (using the Jinja templating engine) and at the same time generates the expandable library sidebar in the home page. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Library#How_it_works documents it in more detail.  Ubuntu or any distribution could customize this package to create a different home page.  Or you could imagine refining the machinery to only update a library section of a home page created by some other step."	defect	closed	Unspecified by Maintainer	Unspecified by Release Team	sugar	0.84.x	Unspecified	notsugar	community-request	sridhar	Unspecified	Needinfo