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[Jason Cook <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The app would not need to have elevated privleges. Just let any user read
the directory. You would need to be root to install any extra tour. If they
are seperate package, you need to be root to install them anyways.

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Anthony Stewart <madnessred@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> The problem is that then the tour needs to have elevated priveledges, but
> yes, we should be able to store tours in a non user specific location.
>
>
> On 5 October 2010 00:48, Alexander Lancey <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> For our ease, and update/space efficiency, I was thinking we would focus
>> on putting the tour out in the filesystem (probably /usr/share/ubuntu-tour).
>> I like the concept of also being able to add tours on a user-by-user basis.
>> It makes me think of Gnome themes.
>>
>> Keep up the good work. :D
>>
>>     -Alex
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:34 +0100, Anthony Stewart wrote:
>>
>> I will make a script that lets you import a tar file, into
>> ~/.ubuntu-tour/tours
>>
>> And we will look there for tours instead, that way, we keep the tours
>> sepparate, and we can install tours easily.
>>
>> Sorry, for being inactive recently, just moved into uni.
>>
>>
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>> On 4 October 2010 02:36, Alexander Lancey <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>  I've noticed the continuing trend of adding more and more topics to the
>> tour. Don't get me wrong - it's great that so much knowledge is being
>> compiled. It just feels like the main tour is getting a bit crowded with
>> things the "normal user" won't need.
>>
>> I think we ought to start talking about what subpackages we'll have For
>> example, ubuntu-tour-advanced, and ubuntu-tour-developers (maybe that's a
>> confusing name, actually), and so on. Thanks to the work of our coders,
>> inserting chapters or tours (call them what you will) is very easy, and
>> doesn't require modifying a central file.
>>
>>     -Alex
>>
>>
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Jason Cook