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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/03/2015 11:39 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> Den 2015-08-03 18:33, Israel skrev:
>> On 08/03/2015 10:20 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>> Den 2015-08-02 23:48, Nio Wiklund skrev:
>>>> Den 2015-08-02 23:00, Israel skrev:
>>>>> Hi Nio,
>>>>> I trust your judgement!
>>>>> I just wanted to give my 2 (small unit of money).
>>>>> :D
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08/01/2015 06:25 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Israel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have made a built-in tool to configure the background colours of the
>>>>>> final checkpoints (separate for standard installations and iso-testing).
>>>>>> The background for iso-testing should be nicer for the eyes, because it
>>>>>> is intended to be used often and by experienced users. It is described
>>>>>> with screenshots at the following link
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073&page=6&p=13331409#post13331409
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You can download the bleeding edge version from Phill's server directly
>>>>>> or with help of *mkusb-installer* and wget. See this link
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v9#from_phillw.net
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Nio
>>>>>>
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>> Hi Israel,
>>>>
>>>> Those 'two cents', or should we say 'två öre' helped me get started and
>>>> make a built-in tool to configure the background colours.
>>>>
>>>> So I hope everybody can be happy now :-)
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> Nio
>>> Hi again,
>>>
>>> I think I understand now - you were telling me so gently, that I did not
>>> understand at once. Now I understand that the background colours that
>>> you edit via the help menu should be saved in a separate file instead of
>>> in-line in the shellscript file. It makes the custom colours survive
>>> updates of mkusb.
>>>
>>> See the following link
>>>
>>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1958073&page=6&p=13332255#post13332255
>>>
>>> Thanks again :-)
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Nio
>> awesome!!
>>
>> Yes exactly!!
>> A more standard configuration way to save the file would be
>> ~/.config/.mkusb
>> using $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
>>
>> look forward to testing it when I have a chance!!
>>
> I'm discussing that topic in the link. I'm not quite happy to save the
> configuration file to the home directory, because it is owned by root,
> because you run mkusb as root
>
> sudo -H mkusb [image-file]
>
> Best regards
> Nio
Hi again,
Yes, I fully understand this rationale... but couldn't that file be
chmod +rwa
There are plenty of good reasons to do this in my opinion.  Using the
XDG variables makes it very portable also

[[ -d "${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}" ]] && mkusbfile="${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/.mkusb}"
[[ -z "${mkusbfile}" ]] && mkusbfile=/root/.mkusb
[[ ! -f "$mkusbfile" ]] && sudo touch "$mkusbfile" && sudo chmod +rwa
"$mkusbfile"

This would mean the user could edit the file easily, as long as mkusb
automatically creates and
 echo "$file_content" | sudo tee "$mkusbfile"

Multiuser setup would allow everyone to customize mkusb with the
per-user variables... 
But it is not that big of an issue.  I probably wont change the color
much, except to just do it once and a while.  are you configuring the
xterm colors as well? :D


 P.S.
Sorry, that should have been:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME

in the first e-mail.

Just for anyone following this :)



-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team