Yes, that would definitely work. There can't be more than a few dozen really common shell-based actions people want to take. It could be a 'hack my XO' activity that introduced you to the command line through specific things you might like to hack.<br>
<br>- your icon<br>- your name<br>- your background image<br>- your desktop layout<br>- your journal (bulk delete/archive)<br>- your activities (bulk delete)<br>- your username <br>- resetting all .sugar prefs<br>- your Flash installation<br>
...<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Kevin Mark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.mark@verizon.net">kevin.mark@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:30:08AM -0500, Samuel Klein wrote:<br>
> Understood. None of these valid concerns sound like reasons to obfuscate it -<br>
> obfuscation doesn't solve the problem Sean mentions.<br>
><br>
> For instance, you could have a version of terminal that let you explore but<br>
> didn't let you write anything to disk; until you toggled a menu preference.<br>
><br>
> At present a number of commonly-used XO recipes start with "find the Terminal<br>
> activity" or, less safe yet, tell users how to pull up the root shell.<br>
><br>
> S<br>
<br>
</div>Can these Terminal uses be turned into an activity with a simple menu like:<br>
delete Sugar Journal, etc. And if you want to 'learn some commands', then<br>
maybe a Terminal activity in a 'sandbox' (would a chroot do that?)<br>
vs work on the XO file system<br>
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