Re: Planning Gnome Scan Inclusion

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le dimanche 10 septembre 2006, à 11:35, David Zeuthen a écrit :
> This should all be controlled by gconf keys so we can reap the benefits
> of lockdown etc. Also, when we get infrastructure for running policy
> daemons (such as g-h-m, g-p-m, nm-applet etc.) when no-one is logged in
> this is also good for the "scanner server" use-case. With this, one
> simply installs a GNOME distro on a box, sets "[X] Share scanners on the
> network" as system default [2] and there you go! [3]

[snip]

> [2] : I suspect that the UI bits for desktop policy daemons such as
> g-p-m, g-h-m and nm-applet will have "Set these settings as system-wide"
> and if the user clicks it these settings will be copied to /etc/gconf,
> e.g. the system-wide location. Of course the user will have to auth in
> this case (as himself or as root) but that's one reason I started
> writing PolicyKit.. Anyway, off-topic in this mail...

David, you rock.

> [3] : in the same vein, it would be nice for g-h-m to have a feature to
> share some/all (external, maybe also internal) storage drives using
> Avahi. Sounds like a fun and small project for someone to hack on,
> possibly it needs some integration with e.g. gnome-user-share. Would be
> a really nice feature though, would help extend our (GNOME) reach even
> more into the data center and the world of sys admins.

(I filed the bug in bugzilla to not lose the idea:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355382)

Vincent

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