Re: FC4 Suggestion: Dynamically Generated "role based" menus

[Matthew Miller <mattdm mattdm org>]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:04:48AM -0800, William Hewitt wrote:
> It would be kinda useful/interesting if one could generate the menu
> system dynamically based on a role variable..... Basically an XML "if"
> statement and an extra field in the ".desktop" files.....
[...]
> and transparently during the install/initialization.... Perhaps with
> just another keyword in the xml definition? Dont know and I am just
> throwing this out there... Perhaps there is alrady something like this
> in place.
> Any thoughts?

Sounds like a decent idea. I think it'd be nicest if it could be based on
(unix) group membership.

This is probably a suggestion for upstream Gnome....

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