Re: Lockdown stuff

[Ross Burton <ross burtonini com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 01:35, Markus Berg wrote:
> It would be nice to have a UI for setting mandatory gconf-settings

I'm very late into this thread...

gconf-editor has a "Set as Default" entry in the right-click menu,
adding "Set as Mandatory" should be about 10 minutes work, if you copy
and paste. At this point gconf-editor will need a preferences dialog so
you can set the "default" and "mandatory" paths, without having to run
./configure again.  Maybe the entry should read "Set explicit source"
and allow you to pick from the sources available.

> and that the final UI would reflect the
> locked-down status.  For instance if Nautilus (and the control panel)
> would remove the "Desktop background" menu items if those gconf-keys are
> read-only.

The examples I've seen of lock-down in GNOME tend to disable instead of
hide the widgets.  Personally I'm not sure what is better -- from a
support point of view I'd say disabling would be more obvious, as
settings are not "magically" disappearing.

Ross
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