Re: [sabayon] Desktop mass-configuration experiences..

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi Will,
	Interesting mail - I'd translate that into the following list of TODO
items for Sabayon:

 1) Figure out a way to generate Evo accounts

      So, we talked about this a bit on irc with Dave Malcolm. Ideally 
      what you'd do is run a sabayon session and create a prototype
      account where you'd fill in the mail server info, maybe accept
      the SSL cert for the IMAP server if there is one and fill in
      a dummy name, e-mail address etc.

      The we'd have an evolution source, which you login would merge
      the real username and e-mail address into that prototype account
      data. How does one figure out the e-mail address, though? Is this
      usually in LDAP or something?

  2) Figure out how we handle printers

      I haven't looked in detail at it, but eggcups with its per-session
      cupsd should help. You log in as the prototype user, add your 
      printers, save those changes to the profile and all user's using
      that profile will get the configuration.

      No idea if this works in practice, though.

      One interesting thing, as you point out, is the default printer.
      This is a per-user thing, rather than a per-profile thing, though,
      since it depends on the user's physical location. Dunno, seems
      like something the admin should be able to set in LDAP along with
      other account info.

  3) Need to be able to edit menus

      Yeah. Its looking like we're going to have two menu editors - a
      simple one which will basically allow you to just disable/enable
      menu items and a much more complex one (intended for admins) which
      will fully expose the details of the menu system - i.e. that the
      menu is constructed by a query on the pool of .desktop files.

  4) Need some way of prototyping profiles before pushing them to
     production

      I guess what we could do is be able to assign a certain revision
      of the profile to users rather than just the latest revision ...

Cheers,
Mark.