le jeu 08-11-2001 at 22:26 Matias Griese a �crit : > On 7 Nov 2001, Fabrice FACORAT wrote: > >> there should be option to choose their own language and keyboard layout > > a peer user localdrake ? > > Yes, some kind of "My Control Center". > > >> Another such a configuration could be choosing the size of the > >> desktop (screen resolution). > > At one time there's only one user. CTRL+ALT+ +/- > > A personnal resolution for each user may be hard to implement unless ... > > Yes, that works except the virtual desktop should be shrinked to > the same size as the screen resolution is.
eh X developpers are working on that trough a new extension : RandR ( X Resize and Rotate Extension, http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/talks/randr/randr/ ). This extension may will be add to Render ( http://www.xfree86.org/~keithp/render/ ) > if it is possible, but by restarting X Window system and by using > different configuration file it should work..? just set a different default resolution, but you need to restart X and also have a progr'amme that will have a config file for each user and that at each connection will change X config file. hum, difficult and maybe not possible. > >> There are also other things which should be in this user-level > >> control panel, like: change password, > > userdrake > > Won't work: "In order to run "userdrake" with root's privileges, > additional information is required. Password for root: ______ " > > There is Configuration->Other->Change Password, but how many finds it > from there? right. We can run it unprivileged but can't change our password. > >> change photo, > > userdrake > > Look above.. > > >> edit menu, > > menudrake > >> task scheduler, > > cf your wm/desktop > > Yes, but what I meant with one place was to make some kind of > My Control Center, where the user could easily find everything > without searching for an hour or two.. manudrake is in MCC ( Mandrake Control center ). concerning task scheduler, it's really depends on your wm/desktop. You can have one from KDE with korganizer, there's several for gnome, you have also evolution, .... > >> shortcuts to different configuration applications like Gnome Control > >> Center, Print Queue, etc, etc.. > > ??? i d'ont understand. On the desktop ? noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo > > No, not desktop. I mean something like Mandrake Control Center but > for a user. Mandrake is very nice distribution as long as you have > the root privileges. But if you try to use Mandrake as a normal > user, it's just horrible. How to change your language, photo, > password? They are very hard to find from menu (because most of > the configuration tools need root privileges) if they can be found > at all (<Ctrl> + <Alt> + +/-). Even I don't try to find some > configuration tool from the menu, because it's much faster to > run it directly from a terminal. My Control Panel would fix this > together with Mandrake Control Center if they are both well made. you're right. My Control center may be very interesting and may replace some parts of First time wizard ( a fiasco at this time ).In my Control center yoy can set up your email account for kmail/evolution/netscape and others things. -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/linux_wizard/index.html - Ceux qui ne savent pas o� ils vont sont surpris d'arriver ailleurs. Pierre Dac
