Re: The Administration menu in GNOME
El Tue, 15-06-2010 a las 00:36 +0930, Sridhar Dhanapalan escribió:
# yum install gnome-packagekit
This opens several dilemmas:
1) olpc-update and rpm don't play well together. Normally, I'd tend to
kill the home-brew solution in favor of the upstream supported one, but
yum still has unsolvable issues, especially on the XO-1.
2) it's easy to break your system by installing fancy packages, or too
many large packages. You could even open security holes.
3) users can use packagekit even to uninstall system packages
4) Even our stripped-down GNOME desktop offers enough dangerous knobs
which some "adventurous" users exploit to break their system
configuration in many non-obvious ways.
This is not speculation. we're actually receiving plenty of complaints
from teachers and technicians. In response, we've taught them how to
reset the desktop configuration to defaults with this crude method:
rm -rf .gconf .gnome2 .config
We cannot assume our target audience to act responsibly and rationally.
Even for adults, some desktop distros provide a simplified UI listing
only popular desktop applications. GNOME also offers some lock-down
options from kiosk mode, which we should consider for the XO.
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