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yeah.. i'd love to run AtEase in my labs here on campus.. we have a total
of about 100 macs that I've currently taken care of by hiding all the folders
and running somethine like OnCue or Apollo to allow users to launch apps from.
Users may still double-click on a document from their disk to launch the app,
also.  This unfortunately limits us to running sys 6.0.x because an app
in a hidden folder under system 7 is for all practical purposes not there.
You cannot launch it by double-clicking on a document.  I like what AtEase
does to prevent users from saving files on our hard drives, and limiting
access to control panels... but we need to allow users access to their disks.
Basically, AtEase has oversimplified the mess too much.  Now.. if it would
not completely replace the finder, but instead just remove the hard drive icon
and prevent user modifications to the hard drive (saving and deleting stuff),
i'd buy 100 copies in a minute!  All the graphical stuff they did in AtEase
is nice, i guess, but it's not an entirely difficult concept.  all they need
is a standard file window (possibly not closable :) which the admin could
, with a password, drag aliases of apps into.  For that matter, it doesn't
even need to be in a window.. placing them on the desktop would be fine.
Just as long as they couldn't be trashed... so.. anybody at Apple (or anywhere
else...) want to write an AtEase II -- for us lab people????
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