Re: [Usability]Re: The path to 2.4 -- part 1

["Bryan W. Clark" <clarkbw clarkson edu>]

Sean Middleditch wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 18:27, Joshua Adam Ginsberg wrote:
>  
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> > Nautilus definitely needs to be of primary concern for 2.4... there was
> > an interesting suggestion I read in a RH8 evaluation essay that was
> > actually linked to off of here... we're getting better at allowing more
> > system administration functions to occur from normal user accounts by
> > prompting for a root password... this author suggested that when doing
> > file management function from within Nautilus, if an operation requires
> > permissions that the user does not have, then prompt for the root
> > password... e.g., if I want to copy a file to /usr/bin and I'm not
> > logged in as root, simply prompt for the root password... or if I want
> > to view another user's home directory but I don't have permissions,
> > simply prompt for the root password...
> >
> > Comments?
> >    
>
> If this happens, make sure there is a gconf key to disable even asking -
> admins might not want user's to even see that dialog pop up.  (I
> wouldn't.)
I would hope that this would be option would off by default so that 
users who want this type of functionality simply have to turn it on and 
other users are never aware of it's presence.  ( I can see this as a big 
usuability issue, one more dialog box for users to handle! )

>  
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> > -jag
> >    
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