Re: [gnome-love] Lockdown Editor

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 23:49 +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> On Fr, 2005-08-19 at 22:28 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > I had an idea for a useful but simple new project. I think it's suitable
> > for gnome-love developers, and I even found some pygtk code that you
> > could start with:
> > http://live.gnome.org/LockdownEditor
>
> I think I also have some advanced gconf editing code floating around,
> which converted an (hard-coded at compile time) array of categories,
> where each of them was an array of gconf keys, to a nice GUI with a
> category tree view on the left and an editing table on the right.
> It's written in C, I don't know whether that's a problem.
>
> I wonder whether a lockdown UI does just consist for a boolean knob for
> each relevant pref, or whether it also allows to hardcode more advanced
> values (lists, strings, etc.). Are there any docs on the current
> lockdown architecture available?

There is a gnome-panel key that is some kind of something-separated
string of applet IDs. There are docs somewhere, but I can't find them
now. CCing Mark.

But even just the boolean stuff would be very useful. And a button to
turn off all lockdowns temporarily then revert to the same lockdown
settings would be very helpful.

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