Re: Lockdown in control center

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 16:57 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 12:10 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> > 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.

Oh, not to mention the issue of what to do if every control in a dialog
happens to be locked down... you can't very well just show an empty
window with a "Close" button :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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