Features for FC4

[ian clancy]

Gnome does not lack menu editing. However it has always been strangely
disabled in Redhat/Fedora.
Regards,
Ian Clancy

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 12:47, Ricardo Veguilla wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 08:19 -0300, Alexandre Strube wrote:
> > Em Sex, 2004-11-12 às 08:08, joelbryan escreveu:
> > 
> > > > > Red Hat -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Sessions -> Startup
> > > > > Programs
> > > > > Then add the list of applications you want, in there, and you can set
> > > > > the start order, I really don't see how that is hard.
> > 
> > Try doing this for 50 computers, each with own user table (no nis, no
> > nfs for /home). Each of those computers with an average of 4 users.
> > 
> 
> Ok, I think you are talking about two different things here: 
> 
> a) - "Start up" folder for regular users 
> b) - Configuration of startup programs by system administrators in large
> networks,etc. 
> 
> Right now, you can do "b" by modifying /usr/share/gnome/default.session
> and you can do "a" via "Session -> Startup Programs". Certainly it will
> be nice to have a "friendlier" way of adding apps to the "Startup
> Program" list[1], but adding a "Start up" folder (like in Windows) is
> hardly the correct solution for case "b"  
> 
> On the other hand, if "proper session management"[2] is implemented, I
> don't think the user (in case "a") will need to manually specify
> "startup programs".
> 
> [1] I think that this will probably depends on menu editing (which Gnome
> lacks ATM).   
> [2] whatever that is :P (see discussions on proper session management on
> the various gnome mailing lists for more info)
>  
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Ricardo Veguilla <veguilla at hpcf.upr.edu>