[1469] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Tue Mar 10 12:09:40 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:08:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Greg Price <price@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> > > I withdraw my previous comment about #1. All athena 9 machines offer the
> > > logout option, and per-user customization to disable it. Since a gconf
> > > key
> > > controls whether the logout option appears or not, perhaps we can do
> > > something
> > > clever like force the logout option on -cluster, and obey the user's gconf
> > > key
> > > (if set) on -workstation.
> >
> > I don't think forcing the gconf key on -cluster users is useful; they can
> > always run a build of xscreensaver out of their home directory instead if
> > they want to avoid the logout button.
>
>
> I assume you meant -workstation, not -cluster, right? (Since we currently
> _do_ force cluster users to have a logout button)
I was suggesting we could get away with changing -cluster to just set the
default, rather than force the issue, because it doesn't really change the
user's ability to not have a logout button if he really wants to. We
could also just force the issue on -workstation. I don't think it's going
to cause serious problems either way, but I think it's best that what
happens when you login on a "private" workstation be the same as when you
login on a "public" workstation.
-Tim Abbott
