Re: GNOME user environment brainstorming

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

On 24 May 2001 18:13:58 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> 
> > The problem is that there should be some method for system
> > administrators to install objects as read-only or something, so they
> > can't be removed or modified by users.
> 
> Right, that's a hard problem. GConf allows it, but some things aren't
> conducive to GConf storage.
>  

One should allow settings/prefs to be stored on the LDAP server as well.
Seems to me when GConf was first introduced it was said to be able to
handle something like this.