Roaming User Support - Questions...

[Dr. Juergen Pfennig]

On Tuesday 03 February 2004 19:04, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> If ~/.kde is on a central NFS mount

Oh! About 95% of all network shares on this planet are smb (or novell) NFS is 
completely exotic because only very few computers have drivers for it (mostly 
UNIX or Linux but their market share is only <= 2%). So sorry - but NFS is 
meaningless and we should forget it!

Why do so many KDE developers restrict their view of the world to Linux? In 
the real world most users of Linux/KDE will be "guests" in an infrastructure 
that is designed for Windows. Do you really want to confine KDE/Linux to a 
windows-free ghetto?

> >Would kde apps hang?

That's the point. KDE needs to cache the config files locally. But I do not 
propose a windows like registry (at M$ they know about the problems and have 
advised developers to partially move away from it years ago). What about an 
rsync like approach for config files triggered by startkde and Xreset (or 
better)? Could that be supported in the control center so that I could also 
setup a remote location for ".kde"?

Waldo Bastian said that there is currently no official support for "roaming 
users" maybe that's too early to be discussed at the moment.

Jürgen