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

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On 14 Aug 2001 02:13:58 -0700, 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

The GNOME Usability Project will be looking at this; I've been thinking
about it for some time, but I'm not sure how much the rest of the team
is interested. Nonetheless, I should have a paper available "soon" -
probably after the short-form human interface guidelines are published
and before the long form is.

> -- 
> Regards,
> -ryan
>
> The three great virtues of programming are laziness, impatience, 
> and hubris, but bigotry makes the open-source world go round.

Cheers,
Greg Merchan
(auspex)