-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/25/07 00:14, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:56:37 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> On 07/24/07 17:31, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:25:47 +0100, Matthew Johnson >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] >>>> Surely the correct approach is to say that people who don't want to >>>> see it won't have it installed and people who have it installed want >>>> to be able to use it from the menu. Programs which you have to have >>>> installed and yet don't want to see in the menu probably shouldn't >>>> have (visible by default) menu entries and should be dealt with by >>>> fixing that program, not by removing all the other entries. >>> Haven't heard of multi-user systems, have we? What if some of the >>> users want to see it in the menu, and other do not? Surely we do not >>> want to make Debian unsuited for multi user installations? >>> >>> I have been using a central server with essentially Etch thin clients >>> at one of our testbeds at work; and it does solve a number of >>> sysadmin headaches for us. > >> Sounds like he's either (a) got a Windows mentality, or (b) doesn't >> want unprivileged users to see non-essential apps. > > The latter might be fine as a local policy; but surely is not > correct as a Debian default. We should make it _possible_ to implement > a local policy of hiding information from users; but we must not let > information hiding be the default; nor the only possible local policy.
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