On 06.05.2008, at 05:16, Michael Stone wrote:
- a compatibility patch which makes $HOME writable by activities by
setting $HOME and $SAR/instance equal to one another.
Why instance? Only the data directory persists, so that would seem a
much more natural choice.
- Bert -
Earlier, I had written:
Of various Activities to which I previously gave special dispensation
from Rainbow, three now launch from the activity ring without
needing that
dispensation -- Develop, Sonata, and Opera.
I spoke too soon.
I'm not familiar with 'Develop', so I don't know how it was
Current versions of Develop should not need special dispensation. Versions
up to about 24 did need it.
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:16 AM, Mikus Grinbergs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Earlier, I had written:
Of various Activities to which I previously gave special dispensation
from Rainbow, three
To follow on (regarding Sonata and Opera) :
Noticed that whereas the without-Rainbow Activities had their files
located in /home/olpc/.something, with-Rainbow-0.7.12 those files
were apparently assigned as /root/.something That would explain
why these Activities did not find their previous
Folks,
I've released a new rainbow, version 0.7.12 into Joyride in order to
solicit more widespread testing of some changes that I'd like to
incorporate into our next release. This version has some tasty things
like
- delayed rainbow startup (which will allow X to win the rainbow/X
startup
