#6629 NORM Never A: Activities can't access fonts installed in the home dir

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#6629: Activities can't access fonts installed in the home dir
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  Reporter:  khaled    |       Owner:  mstone        
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  reopened      
  Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
 Component:  security  |     Version:                
Resolution:            |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0         |    Blocking:                
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Changes (by bert):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  invalid =>


Comment:

 But this would force every activity to manually set the necessary
 environment variables, or symlink to the font directories. Not only does
 that introduce a dependency on the "olpc" user name, but also it is
 impractical to expect every activity to do so.

 Instead, the "system" should set things up so that it just works. Since
 Rainbow is the component that re-routes the activities' home dirs, it
 seems natural for it to be responsible for ensuring they do not break.
 Possibly it could leave the responsibility to Sugar.

 But a mechanism to generally solve that is needed. It could work by
 allowing the activity environment vars to be customized, and/or for a set
 of directories and files linked into each activity's home.

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