Re: GNOME System Tools 0.29.0 "Where's my hack??" is out!

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 19:01, Mark Finlay wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 09:42, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="garnacho tuxerver net">
> > 
> > > > It seems to have been on my 2.4/2.5 tarballs system. Very pleasing, apart
> > > > from the length of the menu. ;-)
> > > 
> > > that's a little problem, another bigger one (IMHO) might be mixing in the 
> > > same menu tools which require root password with other ones which doesn't...
> > > any opinion? :/
> > 
> > I don't think that's a huge problem, but I would love to see the g-s-t tools
> > work a bit more like the Mac OS X control panels - only asking for the root
> > password when it is required (ie. when actioning the change). That would be
> > really sweet, though I don't know how feasible. :-)
> 
> dude, that would be so confusing. People would go and configure things
> only to find out that they don't have access to do it. There is really
> nothing in the gst that can be done as user so I see no benefit.

You've obviously never seen the MacOS config tools :)

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