Re: [Gnumed-devel] A login suggestion for horst vs richard space

[Richard Terry]

I'll sleep on it. I have no major attatchment one way or another at the 
moment. In a developement gnuMed it would be a quick'n easy feature to not 
have to go to the config change it and reboot the program. In the production 
model its obviously not necessary.

Regards

Richard

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 06:08 am, Hilmar Berger wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:30:52 +0100
>
> Karsten Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:18:14AM +1100, Richard wrote:
> > > I've modified the login file slightly, png attatched to show the
> > > result. This would be a good, quick fix for switching between spaces if
> > > someone would link it to the backend.
> > >
> > > Also raises other possibilites, such as including country specific
> > > combo selection to bring in automatically country specific stuff.
> >
> > How often would one do that ? Very rarely in actual practice.
> > Hence it should not clutter up the login screen. Hilmar
> > correctly observed that such for-now options have the tendency
> > to stick around.
>
> I absolutely agree.
> In addition to a --layout command line option we could also add this to the
> profile stored in your gnumed.conf. That's where IMHO all parameters that
> are not changed frequently and/or only by a limited number of people
> belong. The profile is the place where you choose/store all parameters you
> need to start up Gnumed which are not directly deducible from the user
> name. We have to be carefully here because there is some overlap with roles
> - which are directly connected to user name. You could for instance create
> two users "Richard_in_Richard_Space" and "Richard_in_Horst_space" and set
> the GUI type in the *User*-DefaultWorkplace environment via ConfigEditor
> appropriately. Then all you have to do in order to change your GUI is to
> log out and log in as a different user.
>
> BTW - right now there is only one possibility exiting your Gnumed session
> by quitting the program. Would it make sense to ask the user if he wants to
> log in as a different user ?
>
> So, in conclusion I vote for not adding another field to the login dialog
> and use existing infrastructure (roles bound to users) to make this work.
>
> Richard, does this sound ok to you ?
>
> Hilmar
>
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