[Usability]Locking A Consistent Theme

["Mike McKee" <mikenews hotmail com>]

What's the consensus to this thought?

(Realize -- I'm still a little new to GNOME.)

If you fast-forward to a future where Linux with GNOME has taken over the corporate desktop, then a standard configuration issue can arise. When a help desk in a company wants to help a user with a problem, they want to know that the user is on a standard theme so that they can walk them through tasks to resolving their problem. If the user has the power to choose an alternate theme, or download a new one and install it, it creates a problem for this help desk.

Not that themes are not good, but it would be nice to know that a network admin could configure a set of perhaps 1-5 standard themes that a user is allowed to switch. Even if the user were to download other themes from the Internet, they still wouldn't be able to install it, under such a network configuration. I'd like to see GNOME provide that avenue for the corporate desktop environment -- common corporate desktop themes that can be locked down.

Another plus would be the ability for a net admin to switch all employee themes out /en masse/ over a weekend without having to walk around to each workstation.

Mike News