On Jun 21, 2010, at 11:21 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote: > I think if there's no pref in ~, it'll look in /. That'd be easy to test. > > What preferences do you need to enforce upon all of your users? > > Chris
Well, first, I don't manage multiple Macs, so it's somewhat hypothetical. Second, I personally wouldn't want to _enforce_, merely be able to provide initial values for (all) the preferences (for GrowlHelperApp, and perhaps for GrowlMail as well, although I do understand that's a separate issue and possibly more difficult). However, I can imagine that some sites might want to be able to lock down certain preferences to particular settings, _especially_ those on the network preference tab. This is analogous to how some sites might lock down proxy and security related settings for Internet Explorer on Windows (which appears to me to be possible, at least to some degree; at any rate, I've used it on some systems where certain settings either couldn't be changed or had no effect). So I could imagine that fully satisfying expectations in the widest range of large-scale deployment situations might call for being able to provide either initial _or_ locked values for any preference (aside perhaps from the applications tab, which I gather depends on what applications have registered themselves with Growl). I certainly have seen requests to deploy other software in a tailored fashion before now, so I suspect that if such capabilities were available and known, they'd be used. The other desirable capability might be to be able to install a single copy with the components in appropriate places under /Network (although those files that were per-user would remain where they are). Tailored initial experience, the option of applying policy control over anything offering or consuming network services, and network deployment; those all come up reasonably often in large-scale deployment. -- 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.
