Re: libgnome: User level

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth Sun COM>]

It is diffcult to achieve a sufficiently fine-grained definition of
"user level" because people are always at different levels with different
features, based on the way they use software. This is true not just for
individual applications but also for features within a single application.

My suggestion would be that every application that implements a user-level
feature should maintain it's own idea of user-level (and this includes how it
saves this setting to a configuration store like GConf).

Colm.

>Delivered-To: gnome-2-0-list gnome org
>To: Cody Russell <bratsche gnome org>
>Cc: martin gnome org, gnome-2-0-list gnome org
>Subject: Re: libgnome: User level
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>From: Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com>
>
>On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:27:44PM -0500, Cody Russell wrote:
>> Hi Martin and hackers,
>> 
>> I was thinking we should add the concept of user level, like
>> Eel/Nautilus currently has, to libgnome.  This is a cool feature that
>> can only be cooler if it applies to the entire desktop.
>> 
>> So, pretty much:
>> 
>> int  gnome_preferences_get_user_level (void);
>> void gnome_preferences_set_user_level (int user_level);
>> 
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?  Can I add this?
>
>The concept seems nice, but why add to the api ?
>Colm's recent proposal to start standardising configuration keys
>seems like the best place for this.
>
>eg
>    /GNOME/user_level
>
>This shrinks the api, and gives us updatability.  Hopefully, the new
>conf mechanism will support this per user with defaults for a groups
>and systems.
>
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