Administration Menu

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 09:46:55AM -0700, George Farris wrote:
> Sorry it sounded like someone was proposing moving the Administration
> menu.
> 
> I have a few questions after reading the spec I see things such as:
> 
> New login nested window [Done] 
>       * - remove entirely 
>         
>   * Run as different user [Done, hidden] 
>       * - remove, not hide 
> 
> I use both theses tools all the time for various things, where would
> they be found if they are to be removed from the menu altogether?

Please download and test the beta release if you can; you'll see that a
"switch user" option is available from the new logout dialog.

> For example editing a system file I usually use sudo vi but I tell my
> users to use gedit in "run as different user", they seem to understand
> that better.

This seems like a potentially valid use case, though my general feeling is
that tools which open a GUI to prompt for a command line to run are not
significantly better than opening a terminal and running the command.

$ sudo gedit
$ gksudo gedit

> I also use login in a nested window quite often, are these to be purged
> from the system altogether, and won't be discoverable by a new user?

It won't be in the default menu, but if you really want it, you can simply
open the menu editor and check a checkbox to re-enable it.

You can run "gdmflexiserver --xnest" (and create a menu item with that
comman if you like).

-- 
 - mdz