Managed Desktop...

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Daniel J Walsh wrote:

>
> Firefox, Mail Client, Office products, NetworkManager, PowerManagement?
>
> Then sabayon++ can add or remove applications from the menu system and 
> autostarting.
>
> Then I and other package maintainers could ship desktop users like 
> xguest user, or corporate desktop user and only run the apps that are 
> appropriate to that type of user.
>
> The biggest benefit for the SELinux team is we can write policy that is 
> appropriate to the type of user.  Currently xguest policy has to 
> dontaudit xguest_t sending dbus messages to packagekit, just because the 
> packagekit client starts by default.  If we have the ability to 
> customize my xguest desktop environment, and future proof it, then we 
> can remove the dontaudit.  If a xguest user tries to start packagekit 
> client, that would be an audited event.
>
> Forgetting about SELinux, I believe this would be compelling to 
> administrators of large networks of desktops.

Isn't this what the reduced functionality/options interface that kde used 
to offer (and maybe still do) is for?

-sv