group control

jupiter jupiter.hce at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 03:21:55 PDT 2013


Sorry, missing the subject

On 3/21/13, jupiter <jupiter.hce at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are integrating our applications to menu desktop for virtual
> machines possibly use of Grome or XFCE.
>
> I've looked at the document in
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html,
> appreciate if anyone can help to answer following questions:
>
> (1) How can we control displaying applications on menu based on group?
>
> We'd like to display different applications on menu for different
> groups, for example, group1 may see app11, app12, app13...on menu and
> group2 may see application21, app22, app23, ... on menu.
>
> The document has a "Group headers" in the format [groupname], can this
> be used for group access control? If so, could anyone point me or give
> an example of what is the key and value and what is the format?
>
> (2) How can we control displaying applications on menu based on individual
> user?
>
> Is it possible to set up menu entry to display certain applications on
> menu for certain users? UserA may be able to see app1, app2, userB may
> only be see app3?
>
> Which key may can be used for controlling the users access? OnlyShowIn
> and NotShowIn? Or TryExec? Or Action?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> j
>


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