Taste the Rainbow:0.7.0
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This page is a guided tour of the source code of the rainbow-0.7.0 release.
Source Code Overview
rainbow |--- conf : installation-time configuration files | \--- session-olpc.conf : applies some unusual dbus rules to allow many uids | to use the same session bus and enables OLPC-specific | dbus access checks. When /etc/olpc-security exists, | session-olpc.conf is loaded by /usr/bin/sugar | |--- docs : explanations & notes | |--- README | \--- DESIGN | *--- rainbow.txt | |--- rainbow : source code | |--- util | |--- stages | |--- targets | \--- service.py | |--- rainbow.spec.in : spec-file template for building RPMS \--- Makefile.package : package-specific variables for use in ../Makefile.fedora *--- ../Makefile.fedora : rules for making local snapshot builds and internal releases, prior to pushing to Fedora
Features
Activity Installation
permissions is a stub that I hope to fill out this weekend based on the secure installation work that marcopg and neuralis did together a few weeks ago
Activity Launching
The key functions for launching activities are
These functions are called in the order listed from
which are, in turn, called from
These six functions (and the relatively simple helpers they call) exhaust the functionality provided by rainbow-0.7.0.