Le dimanche 10 septembre 2006, à 11:35, David Zeuthen a écrit : > This should all be controlled by gconf keys so we can reap the benefits > of lockdown etc. Also, when we get infrastructure for running policy > daemons (such as g-h-m, g-p-m, nm-applet etc.) when no-one is logged in > this is also good for the "scanner server" use-case. With this, one > simply installs a GNOME distro on a box, sets "[X] Share scanners on the > network" as system default [2] and there you go! [3]
[snip] > [2] : I suspect that the UI bits for desktop policy daemons such as > g-p-m, g-h-m and nm-applet will have "Set these settings as system-wide" > and if the user clicks it these settings will be copied to /etc/gconf, > e.g. the system-wide location. Of course the user will have to auth in > this case (as himself or as root) but that's one reason I started > writing PolicyKit.. Anyway, off-topic in this mail... David, you rock. > [3] : in the same vein, it would be nice for g-h-m to have a feature to > share some/all (external, maybe also internal) storage drives using > Avahi. Sounds like a fun and small project for someone to hack on, > possibly it needs some integration with e.g. gnome-user-share. Would be > a really nice feature though, would help extend our (GNOME) reach even > more into the data center and the world of sys admins. (I filed the bug in bugzilla to not lose the idea: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355382) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list