Re: Lockdown in control center

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:10 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 15:32 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 11:34 +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> > > Another question on the topic. Should the UI reflect the locking of any
> > > key? 
> > 
> > FWIW, just a reminder that there has always been a HIG section about
> > locked down settings, but it sucks badly at the moment:
> > 
> > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/controls-sensitivity.html#controls-locked
> > 
> > 
> not sure about it, but wouldn't it be better to just hide all the locked
> down widgets?

I don't think you could say that generally, because it's quite possible
that in some cases you might want to see their values even if if you
can't modify them.  For example, to read them out to a helpdesk
operator, or just to copy them to another, non-locked-down machine.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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