[Bugs] #4349 untriaged UNSP: Improve Turtleart discoverability in Gnome

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#4349: Improve Turtleart discoverability in Gnome
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    Reporter:  tonyforster                |          Owner:                             
        Type:  enhancement                |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  untriaged                  |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Unspecified                |       Keywords:                             
Distribution:  Unspecified                |   Status_field:  Unconfirmed                
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Description changed by tonyforster:

Old description:

> In 13.1.0 Gnome, TA is not discoverable, in earlier builds it was. This
> is because Nautilus default preference is not to launch .py files and
> because of a much earlier decision to disable permissions of the
> Activities directory.
>
> I suggest:
> 1) Add Turtleart to the Gnome Applications/Programming menu
>
> 2) Make the Nautilus default 'Ask each time' for executable text files.
>
> 3) I question the wisdom of disabling permissions for Activities. It is
> not consistent with Sugar/OLPC core values. The larger deployments have
> their own builds, have smaller deployments requested disabling
> Activities? Is it achieving anything, if kids are smart enough to delete
> Activities then they are smart enough to chmod. I don't think there is
> anyway to downgrade an Activity version without Activities permissions.
>
> ps Gnome Applications/Programming/Mysqueak doesn't seem to work but will
> do another ticket for that #4350

New description:

 In 13.1.0 Gnome, TA is not discoverable, in earlier builds it was. This is
 because Nautilus default preference is not to launch .py files and because
 of a much earlier decision to disable permissions of the Activities
 directory.

 I suggest:
 1) Add Turtleart to the Gnome Applications/Programming menu

 2) Make the Nautilus default 'Ask each time' for executable text files.

 3) I question the wisdom of disabling permissions for Activities. It is
 not consistent with Sugar/OLPC core values. The larger deployments have
 their own builds, have smaller deployments requested disabling Activities?
 Is it achieving anything, if kids are smart enough to delete Activities
 then they are smart enough to chmod. I don't think there is anyway to
 downgrade an Activity version without Activities permissions.

 ps Gnome Applications/Programming/Mysqueak doesn't seem to work but will
 do another ticket for that #4350 see laptop 11961

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