On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Peter Hosey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On May 18, 2010, at 21:22:20, Chris Forsythe wrote: > > This overrides one of our main goals, giving users the control. I'm ok > with a white list, but the end user must have control. > > I think the rules are different in a managed environment. It's not the > user's computer, it's (effectively) the admin's, so it's the admin who > should have control. > It's not the admins either, it's effectively the companies. The admin is paid to maintain it. The motivation here is that the admin doesn't want to get support requests, from my understanding of having been an admin, supporting them, and also my reading of sourcehounds emails. > > The user needs to have *some* control, such as the ability to disable > certain notifications and to customize their display to their taste, but > when there is an admin, the admin should have the power to set whatever > limits they see fit, including an exclusive list of applications allowed to > post Growl notifications. Allowing the user to override such a list > undermines that power. > > What sourcehound is advocating is that the admin be able to set *all* preferences, *all* application settings, and not give the user any control, whatsoever. If the user knows enough about how to use the defaults command, and finds our documentation on the website about how to disable the whitelist, imho then they will not be contacting the admin to file support requests. I don't know of any admin who would care about that level of control, other than to not get support tickets about it. > So, I think Growl should simply obey the whitelist, at least when it is > enforced, and display (one way or another) that there is one. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Growl Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<growldiscuss%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Growl Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/growldiscuss?hl=en.
