Re: [gnome-love] Anyone done this before?

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 02:13:58AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ryan Marsh wrote:
> Has anyone tried something like this with Gnome?
>
> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/08/10/1441239&mode=thread
>
> I've tried a small setup similar to theirs and all I can say is it was a
> total bitch. Trying to host several users running Nautilus and Evolution
> on completely remote X clients with preconfigured desktops, and
> restricting their configuration isn't exactly as simple as:
>
> export DISPLAY=somemachine:0
> xclock

Eighteen months ago, Paul Cooper set up GNOME for the maths department
of Warwick University, and wrote it up. He asked for any other people
who'd set it up for lots of people to contribute their accounts. 

No-one did. Well, I did hassle a bunch of people for details of how
they'd done it and got some, but they didn't send it to Paul and I,
um, forgot. 

I don't think Paul really maintains the doc now, but it is still
available at http://www.darboux.uklinux.net/gnome/

GNOME has lots of little gotchas, and has very little documentation
on how you set it up for a ton of users with control over what they
can and can't do. I suspect that is resulting in it simply not being 
set up in situations which are like that described in the article
about Largo above.

I'm not sure this is really gnome-love-fodder, but I'm also not
sure where else it should go, beyond gnome-list in its general
catch-all capacity. 

Telsa