Desktop issues discussion proposal

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 13:50, Mariano Draghi wrote:
> But I can't figure out how we can deal with a multiple-user desktop... 
> should the new added RPM appear auto magically in all the other users' 
> menus? Should the system alert the other users in the next login about a 
> recently added application, and ask them if they want to use it? (i.e. 
> put it in the menu)

Yeah, lots of possible solutions. Another approach is that there's a
default menu everyone gets, and they don't see newly-installed software
at all until they install it themselves (which may just add the menu
item if the RPM is already installed).

In many environments probably users can't cause RPMs to be installed as
the system is centrally managed, they can only edit menus in effect. But
the menu editing might look like "add/remove software" to the user.

Havoc