alan jhonn aguiar schwyn wrote: > > > I think that the shortcut is for make the activity "more amigable" to the > people..But if you are in terminal, you know what are you doing..And put > "su" > and press enter, no is difficult.. > +1 for remove it! > I remember than in our Xo's (Ceibal), without root, the activity crash when > press thebutton.. The new versions of Terminal i'm not sure if make that. > Regards! > Alan > > > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:38:04 -0300 > > From: ma...@laptop.org > > To: sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > Subject: [Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Terminal activity, become root > functionality issues > > > > Forgot to raise this in today's Dev Meeting. > > > > Become root presents the following issues. Should we just remove it? > > What is the gain of having it, isn't just a shortcut for manually > > writting "su"? > > > > * http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3689 > > * http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2756 > > * http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/2597
please drop the feature. as implied by #2756 above, it entirely breaks any unix models regarding how processes nest, or what it means to "become root". if "teaching" is part of our goal, that button isn't helping. paul > > > > Cheers, > > > > -- > > .. manuq .. > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > part 2 text/plain > 153 > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel =--------------------- paul fox, p...@laptop.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
