Re: what's going on with menus?

["Christian Neumair" <chris gnome-de org>]

Mark McLoughlin schrieb: 


> On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 17:38, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > Am Mi, den 19.05.2004 um 11:41 Uhr -0500 schrieb Brian Cameron: 
> >
> > > I really like the proposal.  Another feature that might be worth
> > > considering would be to allow menu profiles, so that different types
> > > of users could have different default menus.  A person who works
> > > with office productivity applications might desire a different
> > > menu than a software developer.  A person with accessibility needs
> > > might want a menu that only shows programs that work with the
> > > accessibility framework, etc.  This way default menus could be
> > > set up for different types of users, rather than requiring each
> > > individual user to set up their own menu to achieve this sort of
> > > effect.  Just a thought. 
> >
> > Although at a first glance this may sound like a good idea, I think this
> > would be overhead. Why can't these two persons, who have different
> > needs, simply use their own user accounts?
>
> 	This falls under the general problem you see in large enterprise
> deployments. Admins like to be able to configure the desktop differently
> for users based on the role of that user. 
>
> 	e.g. users in the call-center would have the issue tracking application
> in their menu, but sales staff would have the customer database
> application in their menu. 
>
> 	Brian isn't suggesting a single user would be able to switch between
> profiles.

Does it boil down to associating menu schemes with particular groups or 
per-account? I don't yet know those admin's needs but I guess extending our 
menu editor to be able to do said things would result in a serious mess 
because it will break instant-apply, heavily increase complexity and such. 

regs,
Chris