Re: gnome-panel menu lockdown proposal

["Diego Escalante" <dieguito gmail com>]

On 1/8/07, Matt Keenan <Matt Keenan sun com> wrote:
> At Guadec last year in Villanova, one of the topics that came up from
> Luis's talk
> on what our customers want from Gnome was the ability to restrict the
> gnome menus.
>
>
> Here's the solution we've implemented for this exact purpose, simply
> involves
> two new global desktop lockdown keys :
>
>  - desktop/gnome/lockdown/restrict_application_launching
>
>    Boolean value, that simply states whether restricted application
> launching
>    is switched on or not.
>
>
>  - desktop/gnome/lockdown/allowed_applications
>
>    A list of string's containing full path's to applications that are
> allowed.
>    e.g. /usr/local/bin/evince etc...
>
>
> Three patches are required for this :
>
>   - gnome-panel (DONE)- Check of restricted application launching is set
> to true then :
>     - hide items on menus whose application is not in the allowed list
>     - hide launcher icons on panels whose application is not in the
> allowed list
>     - Restrict creating of launchers by D'n'D whose application are not
> in the allowed
>       list.
>
>   - libgnome (DONE but needs updating) - provide default schema for two
> new gconf keys
>
>   - Pessulus (TODO) - Update to allow editing of new gconf keys.
>
>
> Posting here to get some feedback from people.
> Patches are available on request.

My feedback:

First, thanks for your work :).

Second, I only have a question: what happens if I add application X to
my panel and next day the admins add that application to the denied
apps list?, will it disappear?. Besides that I'm totally positive
about this.

Third, couldn't the allowing applications part be added to Alacarte?
(just an idea)


Thanks again for your work,

Greetings :)