[Mageia-dev] xguest and the display manager

Mon Feb 20 17:03:29 CET 2012

2012/2/20 Olav Vitters <olav at vitters.nl>:
+> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 04:01:46PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
+>> In order to have a 'guest user', which usually means a passwordless
+>> user, you don't need any additional software, you just need to
+>> configure your computer. Hence my point than using a package to
+>> automatically performing those configuration changes doesn't make
+>> sense, and than either a plain documentation, or another fancy
+>> configuration wizard would work as well.
+>
+> I agree that you don't want a package. But no problem with a checkbox
+> somewhere which does the right thing (configuring, etc). I think the
+> "System Settings" in GNOME allows you to easily setup a new account, so
+> IMO, functionality is not needed..
+
+I already mentioned: adding a regular user is no big deal, be it with
+Gnome or via userdrake or on CLI. But xguest is a special user with
+extended attributes (like only temporarily saving of changes xguest
+makes during a session). How would you configure this?
+
+BTW: I often expressed my annoyance to see system wide settings being
+handled in a DE dependent tool (like this user account setting in
+Gnome) while there is a tool with the same function/task in MCC. A DE
+"System Settings" should limit its tasks to DE related functions
+because
+ - DE "System settings" can conflict with MCC tools
+ - are only avaiable for that DE, not for all others while a system
+related tool should be available no matter which DE is used.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+