RE: using the panel to uninstall packages.

["Poletti, Don" <don poletti comverse-in com>]

I think this would make a good project of the week.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sri Ramkrishna [mailto:sri@aracnet.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 3:29 PM
> To: Olaf Grüttner
> Subject: Re: using the panel to uninstall packages.
> 
> 
> > > You know it would be an interesting exercise if one could 
> uninstall a
> > > piece of software by right clicking on a menu item and clicking
> > > "uninstall.." or something to that effect.  Has anybody 
> looked into it?
> > 
> > Nice idea, but wouldn't this confuse regular users? 
> > And second aspect: it would have to be clear, what to remove. 
> > the button in the menue, or the program itself.
> 
> Well a window woudl come up and you could specify.
> "remove from menu"
> "remove from system"
> 
> For most users though uninstall means just that uninstall the software
> from the system.  In teh start menu system on windows there 
> really is an
> option called uninstall software package although it's a real 
> menu item
> not a right clickable option.
> 
> > But for an administrator it would be a cool thing. Maybe there could
> > be an option in the controlcenter to show the "remove 
> program from system"
> > button in the foot menue.
> 
> That would be cool..a sysadmin tool to delete items would be 
> nice.  I'm a
> sysadmin myself and this sort of thing would be a concern to 
> me.  I would
> like to see an option where I have some sort of control of what menu's
> they see system-wide.  Whether that means that I have to NFS mount
> /opt/gnome or put in AFS or something.
> 
> > Or this option would only be accessible for root.
> 
> I don't know if I would use root.  I would probably install it under
> "gnome-admin" or something and then use that.  You want to minimalize
> dependence on root as much as possible.
> 
> 	sri
> 
> 
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