#10409 NORM 10.1.3: GNOME Breakability Issues -- options and actions breaking Gnome and Sugar

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#10409: GNOME Breakability Issues -- options and actions breaking Gnome and Sugar
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           Reporter:  martin.langhoff  |       Owner:  martin.langhoff    
               Type:  task             |      Status:  new                
           Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  10.1.3             
          Component:  gnome-desktop    |     Version:  not specified      
         Resolution:                   |    Keywords:                     
        Next_action:  design           |    Verified:  0                  
Deployment_affected:                   |   Blockedby:  10290, 10531, 10532
           Blocking:                   |  
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Changes (by greenfeld):

 * cc: greenfeld, godiard (added)


Comment:

 I had the idea to set the Activities, etc., directories read only if not
 immutable (via chattr or similar) whenever a user switches from Sugar to
 Gnome, and release the restriction when they switch from Gnome to Sugar.

 Martin likes this but had the further idea of doing this from olpc-session
 depending on which Window manager it decides to start.  Personally I
 wonder if the latter will cause unnecessary delays and/or SD card writing.

 Chattr might be a better way of doing this if we're concerned activities
 like controlling the permissions of certain files in their directories.  I
 seriously doubt many of them use chattr to do it as it would confuse most
 people when removing items.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10409#comment:8>
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