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to: Hrvoje Mesing
from: Robert Comer
date: 2006-04-27 13:53:00
subject: Re: firefox install requires admin rights?

From: "Robert Comer" 

> No :)), you agree with me 100% :) Why ? Because, if settings are to be
> per-User, then you can force user to logoff and your login screen will be
> refreshed to the Computer-Default, or Admin settings resolution adn
> refresh and you can still logon withput any problems :)

Nope, I still think it's a user setable option, if the next user doesn't
like what the previous user had, they can change it too.  Usability is
extremely important and I don't want to have my users have to wait for me
to change it for them.

--
Bob Comer


"Hrvoje Mesing"  wrote in
message news:4450f612{at}w3....
>
> "Robert Comer" 
wrote in message
> news:444e73da{at}w3....
>>> Not sure ...
>>> If resolution, depth, refresh are per-User settings, then I'm with you,
>>> BUT!, if those settings are per-Machine settings (which they are in
>>> Windows today) then those are *Pure!* Admin settings and User should
>>> not! have access to them!
>>
>> We'll just have to disagree on that, a user has to be able to change this
>> for usability.
>
>
> ---
>
> No :)), you agree with me 100% :) Why ? Because, if settings are to be
> per-User, then you can force user to logoff and your login screen will be
> refreshed to the Computer-Default, or Admin settings resolution adn
> refresh and you can still logon withput any problems :)
>
> Or something else, still, if this will have an option to be regulated
> through GP, I'll kill the User_can_change_resolution in a second!
>
> You are right for TS and per-Session.
> Well, in case of tiny font, it still has a chance to change Appereance and
> Font size because it si per-User setting.
>
> ---
> M.
>

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