[Sugar-devel] Free Terminal?

[Kevin Mark]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:30:08AM -0500, Samuel Klein wrote:
> Understood.  None of these valid concerns sound like reasons to obfuscate it -
> obfuscation doesn't solve the problem Sean mentions.
> 
> For instance,  you could have a version of terminal that let you explore but
> didn't let you write anything to disk; until you toggled a menu preference.
> 
> At present a number of commonly-used XO recipes start with "find the Terminal
> activity" or, less safe yet, tell users how to pull up the root shell.
> 
> S

Can these Terminal uses be turned into an activity with a simple menu like:
delete Sugar Journal, etc.  And if you want to 'learn some commands', then
maybe a Terminal activity in a 'sandbox' (would a chroot do that?)
vs work on the XO file system

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