[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Some issues that I see with 1.8.0

[David Bruce]

Hi Matt, Matt, and everyone ;),

One thing we are going to have to figure out with the custom word
lists is whether we want custom word lists to be visible to other
users - I can see situations where we would want them shared, and
other situations where they should be user-specific.  The main idea I
had was that a teacher might want to create word lists for everyone,
so I put them in a location that is modifiable by ordinary users but
readable by everyone.  I think tuxtype's setup for unix is correct for
this scenario, with the possible additional modification that maybe
only the teacher should be able to change the lists.

In Windows, my knowledge is a lot more sketchy - I just made the paths
the same for the bundled and custom word lists the same.  This has the
side-effect of making the bundled word lists editable, if the editor
is usable at all with existing permissions.  Clearly we need to do
some work here.

So, now we are moving to using the user's home directory for the word
lists, which makes the editor usable, but takes us back to my original
problem of how to create new lists that all users can see?  Does
Windows have something analogous to /var, that is data that is
modifiable without root privileges and visible to everyone?  That
would be closer to my original idea.

It seems this could just get way too complicated for ordinary folks to
want to mess with.  So, I'm wondering what we should try to provide:
user-specific custom word lists only, shared custom word lists only,
or both, with a way for the user to choose the type?

Cheers,

David