[gnome-love] Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Ian McKellar <yakk yakk net au>]

On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 07:32:30PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Glynn Foster <glynn foster ireland sun com> writes:
> > I think it would also be pretty neat, and in some cases essential, that
> > the system admin could completely lock down GNOME configuration wise...
> > so that no user could configure his/her own desktop. I can just see this
> > being really useful in large companies with evil system admins :)
>
> GConf does allow this, more or less... though apps have to actually
> call gconf_is_writable() or whatever it's called and properly
> desensitize the options in the GUI, and I'm sure none of them
> will. ;-)

Eh?

You mean there are apps that don't use Pong? ;-)

Ian