Icons for all users

Shawn Erickson shawnce at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 09:50:58 PDT 2008


On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Shawn Erickson <shawnce at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Bart Silverstrim
> <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
>> In Windows, you can put an icon into c:\documents and settings\all
>> users\desktop to have an icon for all users who log in.
>>
>> Is there an analogous way to do this in OS X?
>
> Nope and you should not place anything on the users desktop (or the in
> dock) unless asked or allowed by the user.
>
> If your application is installed (or copied by the user) under
> /Applications all users will see and have access to it (assuming
> proper file permissions).

Sorry thought this email was on one of the developers lists...

Can you outline what exactly you are trying to achieve? ...and in what
context? (systems you manage, etc.)

-Shawn


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