[Sugar-devel] 0.96 Change?

[Peter Robinson]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Sascha Silbe <silbe at activitycentral.com> wrote:
> Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu> writes:
>
>> I notice that for Sugar 0.96 it seems necessary, in copying a file from the
>> Terminal to a USB stick, to do:
>>   cp myfile.py /run/media/liveuser/myUSB/myfile.py (perhaps I've got
>> liveuser and myUSB reversed)
>> instead of the much simpler (in 0.94 and before):
>>   cp myfile.py /media/myUSB/myfile.py
>> (two new levels!)
>
> That's a change on the distro level (Fedora resp. systemd in this case),
> not in Sugar. When running Sugar 0.96 on most other distros (that don't
> use systemd), it will still be /media/<medium name>. When running Sugar
> 0.94 (or really any version of Sugar) on Fedora 17, it will also be
> /run/media/<user name>/<medium name>. You can't derive the path to use
> From the Sugar version. For use in Activities, let me quote a recent
> mail of mine:

It's implemented by systemd but ultimately it's to allow secure multi
user environment as if you have a multi user terminal you don't
necessarily want everyone to see the contents of your private usb
stick. It's an annoyance from the command line but easily fixed with
symlinks but completely unnoticeable from a GUI.

Peter