Le mardi 04 janvier 2005 à 15:11 -0500, Colin Walters a écrit :
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 17:54 -0200, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2005, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Realistically, the only sort of device that has a lot of site-local
> > configuration is a network card; for most other things you don't care.
>
> Hmm, let's see...
>
> - Printer: probably want to keep customizations such as default page
> size, paper tray, etc
>
> - Mouse: emulate the middle button or not.
>
> - Keyboard: what's the key layout
>
> - Display: what depth, resolution to use
These all look like per-user preferences to me. So they should be
stored in GConf.
Not all of them :
- some printers accept extensions (memory, supplementary trays,
duplexing unit...) that are not detectable and must be specified
manually by the admin somewhere
- mouse : physical setup (wheel...) will almost always be shared among
users (even if modern devices make this less a problem than before)
- keyboard : again different users may use different layouts but some
characteristics like key number are shared
Sure you can have every user redefine every single parameter - but even
if users with different tastes do happen very frequently, the vast
majority of cases will be users sharing the same customisations (because
of the site/corporate policy, or there is only one computer-addict in
the family, etc). This is BTW one of GConf biggest weaknesses right now
- it's easy to change things on a per-user basis, but much less so on a
per-system (or per-group) one, unless you want to dig into GConf
internals and fight your distribution idea of what the defaults should
be.
> - Hard disks: where to mount
How do you configure this now?
Crazy udev manual rules;)
Regards,
--
Nicolas Mailhot