On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 03:03:38PM -0000, nneff wrote: > Just to make sure, the students' username on the computers that they > take home is still 'student', correct? > > So their Desktop folder will be located at /home/student/Desktop, correct? > > I ask this because I have to hard-code the path to Scratch in the "Run > Scratch" launcher that will be placed on students' desktops. The > launcher just calls /home/student/Desktop/Scratch/runscratch.sh > > The scratch installation plan goes like this: > > Students get a CD with 2 things on it: > 1) Scratch directory > 2) A .desktop link pointing to Scratch. > > Installation goes like this: > > 1) Copy Scratch folder and desktop icon from CD to student's desktop. > 2) Double-click the desktop icon to run Scratch. > > I didn't find a way to make the "installer" more robust by pointing > the link to "$HOME/Desktop", but this should work for this class. > > I will need to get together with a ghosting image guru to put Scratch > on the next batch of students' computers. It's pretty simple, actually.
Do you really want to put this stuff on the Desktop where they can easily or accidentally delete it. Maybe you can link it to the Desktop but maybe you should put the script in /usr/local/bin where only those with sudo or root privileges can mess with it. sean -- Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:32:14 -0500 Unix Epoch Time: 1181953934
