make ~/.face world-readable (low-hanging-fruit) (Was Re: livecd hacking)

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:56 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 15:38 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:10 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > One thing we probably want on the desktop live cd, compared to mainline
> > > Fedora, is making sure that the user's home directory are
> > > world-executable, e.g. like this
> > 
> > It's less of a low-hanging fruit, but I would love to also see us give
> > every new account a random icon by default.  It would be much cooler to
> > see that than the question-mark silhouette.
> 
> random requires useradd hacking... something other than the question
> mark just requires dropping something in /etc/skel...

Ideally we'd just ask questions like these (plus preselecting a suitable
random one) as part of the installation process including using GNOME
Cheese / ktuberling / etc. style apps available. Other things I'd like
to see is the ability to select the desktop background / color scheme /
whatever. It's also a nice place to plug in migration tools to fetch
this data from another OS / whatever.

Also, it's preferable to do this at install time rather than firstboot
time. Because I'm not so sure firstboot makes a lot of sense for a
desktop/laptop targeted OS (though I'm sure it's great for enterprise
workstation deployments).

In addition, ideally the user can do this while the bits are being moved
to his hard disk.

     David