Re: what's going on with menus?

["D.M.D. Ljungmark ( Spider )" <spider takeit se>]

Christian Neumair wrote / skrev:
> Mark McLoughlin schrieb:
>
> > On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 17:38, Christian Neumair wrote:
> >
> >     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,


Actually I have this need as well, currently re-worked with a big load 
of ugly cludgy bootscripts to copy the menu spec xmls over from 
different places depending on the machine in question.

This is because a lot of the applications are semi-hardware related 
(scanner interfaces, floppy formatter, cd-recorders, OOo, several 
Games..).  Its diverse and policy (sheesh) dictates that not all said 
applications should be readibly avaiable (IE. visible in the menu) in 
all computers / classrooms.

So yes, some kind of role-system would be welcome, but it can be cludged 
around. This could perhaps be done with some very creative use of 
Keywords= in the .desktop files, together with a menu spec change based 
on the machine, but some kind of configuration would greatly ease this 
for us.


(Just popping in with a definite case for this discussion. :)

//DmD