Re: Limited Menus for non-root users

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On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:08, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
>     The idea's simple; until the "get root access" menu item, always
> displayed, is hit and it provides the little 'keys' icon on the system
> tray, programs requiring root access simply don't show up. Entire menus,
> once 'hidden' like this, would then be hidden from their parent menus.
> 
>     I think this is do-able, but then, I've not seen the code.  What do
> you folks think?

Sounds problematic at best.  How do you specify which menus or launchers
to hide?  Anything along those lines would surely require changes to
various freedesktop.org specs.  I doubt any of this will even be
considered until SELinux is in a usable state (FC3? FC4?).  Then ideally
you would show menus based on user roles.

As for removing the menus entirely you can copy:
  /etc/X11/desktop-menus/applications.menu
to:
  ~/.gnome2/vfolders/applications.vfolder-info

To remove the menus requiring root access you can edit the vfolder-info
file.  Remove the Folder blocks named:
  System
  MoreSystem
  System Settings
  Server
  MoreServer

There may be implications to doing this, of course.  Particularly if
something adds a new application menu.  But, I don't think anything of
grave importance would be affected.  I've done it for several years
without any problems.

-- 
 David Norris
  http://www.webaugur.com/dave/
  ICQ - 412039

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