Hi Darren, passing you over to Stephen who will be better able to explain about the problems with this applet in TX.
Stephen, can you reply to Darren on this. Thanks Bob Darren J Moffat wrote: > Robert Kinsella wrote: >> Hi Darren, >> I started trackerd manually in all zones, gnome-session (testing on >> gnome2.22) did not start the daemon automatically. > > Is this is bug that will be fixed before integration or an > architectural issue that it can't start up by default ? > >> The GUI interface 'deskbar' applet only operates in the 'global >> zone'. This applet does not operate in labeled zones. >> It is NOT available to user's who do not not have admin_high clearance. >> see:- 6458563 - [tjds] possible to launch applications outside of >> clearance using some applets. > > The fix for that bug is a bit of a nasty hack in my opinion. It is > pointing out an architectural problem. The problem being that the > gnome-panel applets run in the "Trusted Path" yet some of them should > actually be running at the workspace label, this cases applet being of > the former type. > > However I don't expect this case to fix that architectural problem. > That however leaves us with the situation that this case only > partially works when using a Trusted Extensions multi level desktop > and that is bad. I think this case is useful and I don't want to > hold it up. I also have a feeling (with zero evidence) that many of > our traditional TX customer base would turn off the trackerd > functionality anyway. > >
