Re: Possible TODO tasks for next release. (was Re: [Denemo-devel] Restructuring of the ObjectMenu/Notes)

[Richard Shann]

On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 11:25 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > > install, however the files are not readable except by root
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 2017 2008-09-27 22:15 ReadingNoteNames
> > > So I guess they will not be loadable by the user running the
> > > application...
> > > 
> > I've checked in the option  to get more menu items
> > from /usr/local/share/denemo/actions/menus/... by right clicking on
> a
> > menu item. It does not work with the present permissions, as
> expected.
> 
> I thought users were only allowed write permission to their home
> directory by default. I am thinking that most distos are not going to
> like this idea. 

Sorry - I sowed confusion by pasting in the wrong bit of the ls command.
We do not want write-permission, it is the ability to read the files
that is lacking, due to the directory permissions:


ls -ld /usr/local/share/denemo/actions/menus/MainMenu/

drwxr-s--- 9 root staff 4096 2008-09-27
22:15 /usr/local/share/denemo/actions/menus/MainMenu/

Compare this with templates for example

ls -ld /usr/local/share/denemo/templates/jazz 

drwxr-sr-x 2 root staff 4096 2008-09-27
22:15 /usr/local/share/denemo/templates/jazz

I don't know how these acquire the permissions they have got... Sorry
for creating confusion - as you say, only root can write to the
installation directory. We just want to read in the system provided
extra menu items.

Richard