[dev] Residual preferences defeating locked prefs

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>:

| Zitat von Edwin Culp <eculp@encontacto.net>:
| 
| > Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>:
| > 
| >  
| > | The hitch is that people wanted the ability to set preferences _for_
| > some 
| > | users, while still locking things in general, which is what the
| current
| > 
| > | behavior allows...
| > | 
| > | -chuck
| > | 
| > 
| > I'm not really concerned  but I am confused.  Lets suppose that I have 
| > 10 "power users" that are setting their prefs, I add 20 newbie's that
| > seting and locking their basic prefs for them, will make life
| beautiful.
| > I now have 10 users that are free and 20 that are locked.  If I'm not 
| > correct, please stop me.  
| 
| Stop. :-) You can't lock only some users but the idea is that you can
| lock
| all users and set different values for their preferences.
| 

I understand the reasoning now for the behavior - but maybe it should be 
documented somewhere (e.g. the FAQ, INSTALL, etc.) so it doesn't jump up 
and bite somebody like it did with me.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz@bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder