Re: gnome-panel menu lockdown proposal

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 11:12 +0000, Matt Keenan 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 :
[...]

> Posting here to get some feedback from people.

The above covers Nautilus ways and manually creating .desktop files?

What about non-obvious ways to launch an app? Although often not
intended to run full featured UI apps, it can be abused to do so.

* gnome-terminal (if in the allowed list)
* deskbar-applet
* Mail Notification (see Commands section in the Properties)
* Evolution  (a) custom command to connect to IMAP server
  (b) mail Filters "Run Programm" and "Pipe to Program" condition
  and action

Just a few ideas that popped right into my head. I am sure there are
lots of others...

  guenther


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