Bug 298856

Summary:	Private Activities - resource added and error message "access denied"
Product:	[Unmaintained] Active	Reporter:	Fania Bremmer <fania.bremmer>
Component:	General	Assignee:	active
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	ivan.cukic, notmart, thomas.pfeiffer
Priority:	NOR
Version:	PA 2
Target Milestone:	unscheduled
Platform:	Meego/Harmattan
OS:	Other
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Description Fania Bremmer 2012-04-26 15:37:56 UTC

Happens on 2012-04-23-16-57-basyskom-plasma-active-testing-meego-usb-live


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- open an activity
- make it private
- add 4 images (like patio.jpg) with the add resource dialog
-> see them added in the box and directly after that an error message poping up: "acces denied..some path/usr/..."

The same bug provokes that if you leave this activity by switching to another open activity and switch back to the private activity: you shortly (like 2 sec) see the resource in the box, and then it vanishes. the resource is not visually represented anymore.
Actual Results:  
resources are not visible anymore in the activity screen

Expected Results:  
- resources stay visibile in the activity screen

Comment 1 Ivan Čukić 2012-04-27 07:12:01 UTC

So, those images are in a system location? Can you write the exact path?

Comment 2 Fania Bremmer 2012-04-27 13:01:24 UTC

Hi Ivan,
it says: "Access denied to /usr/share/sample-media/PICTURES/Party/christmas.jpg" 
for this case I just retested here. So the bug is reproducable...

Comment 3 Ivan Čukić 2012-04-28 09:06:17 UTC

So, the path I decided to take:
If the file is not movable, an error message will be shown "You don't have permissions to move these files into a private activity. The files in question are not linked to the activity." ... or something similar.

Those files will not even be copied to the private activity since that can be seen as a security issue.

Comment 4 Marco Martin 2013-01-22 09:57:39 UTC

At the moment private activities aren't supported at all anymore.
they have quite structural problems not really solvable. they may get back some time as a way more lightweight solution, while for more complex usecases only multiuser makes any sense, but for now all those bugs should be removed since they are about a feature that is not here anymore and not going back soon.

Comment 5 Thomas Pfeiffer 2013-01-23 20:48:08 UTC

Private Activities feature was removed