On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Sascha Silbe <si...@activitycentral.com>wrote:
> Excerpts from Rafael Ortiz's message of Thu May 19 18:52:59 +0200 2011: > > > Temporaly Disabling become root button on terminal activity > > avoiding problems reported SL#2756 and #2597, also in merge request on > gitorious > > CC'ing Gary and Walter to discuss the UI side of this. > As discussed in both tickets [1,2] we might want to get rid of this > button permanently - at least in its current form. It's dangerous > (kills the currently running process(es)) and just a shorthand for > "su -". > > While getting rid of the button without any replacement would make root > access less easy to discover, I'd argue that without a minimal > introduction the shell functionality is equally "hard" to discover. The > same minimal introduction (/etc/motd?) could mention "sudo -i". > > > Thanks for the review Sasha, I also think we will need further introductions on how to become root, although at this moment I don't know how to add this from the activity itself without having a mod on the os, IIRC olpc's term had this info along with a ''welcome children of the world'' intro , although dextrose don't. (I might be wrong though), ideas welcomed. > [terminal.py] > > @@ -86,17 +86,17 @@ class TerminalActivity(activity.Activity): > > tab_toolbar_button.show() > > > > # Add a button that will be used to become root easily. > > - root_button = ToolButton('activity-become-root') > > - root_button.set_tooltip(_('Become root')) > [...] > > + #root_button = ToolButton('activity-become-root') > > + #root_button.set_tooltip(_('Become root')) > [...] > > Please just remove the lines. If we want to bring them back later, we > can just revert the patch. That's what a VCS is for after all. > > Right!. > Sascha > > [1] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2597 > [2] https://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2756 > -- > http://sascha.silbe.org/ > http://www.infra-silbe.de/ >
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