On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:50:09PM -0700, sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> Besides if some bozo tells you that "The tools you are looking for are
> most likely looking for are 'chown' and 'chgrp'." and he happens to be
> wrong, someone else on the list will probably tell the bozo they are a

You're such a bozo.

(just kidding)

I was going to suggest the same thing... make the preferences directory
not writeable by the user, and see what happens... but Gnome might still
allow some changes, but not be able to persist them.  Which might be even
better... the user can play but can't screw up anybody else by doing so.

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