[gnome-love] Re: GNOME user environment brainstorming

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Cody Russell wrote:

> The problem is that there should be some method for system
> administrators to install objects as read-only or something, so they
> can't be removed or modified by users.
>
> I've thought about this one already, but haven't really come up with any
> fantastic solutions.  If anyone can think of one, I'd be willing to help
> work on it.

Wouldn't this just be another GConf issue?  GConf allows sysadmins to
set user, workgroup and enterprise-wide permissions (for example) on all
manner of desktop things, providing we can persuade the maintainers of
those desktop things to use GConf to store their configuarations anytime
soon...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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