Fwd: User bus conclusion

[Inge Wallin]

On Friday, November 12, 2010 11:37:43 Inge Wallin wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 10, 2010 00:29:32 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > D-Bus community is proposing to do away with the session bus and replace
> > it with a user bus. Long story short, this means that multiple logins of
> > the same user are not allowed by construction.
> > 
> > Is this something we allow or even support in KDE?
> > 
> > My first reaction to Ryan's email was to say that we do not want the new
> > feature. Services like KWallet would show the password dialog in possibly
> > the wrong X display, klauncher-launched applications would show up in the
> > wrong X display, etc., so it would be unusable.
> > 
> > However, on second thought, I came to the conclusion that running two
> > instances of kwalletd would be a problem of itself: the two wallets
> > trying to have write access at the same time could end up stepping over
> > each other's toes, causing data loss (one of the instance's changes or,
> > worse, all of the data).
> > 
> > So I have to ask again: do we allow or support multiple logins of the
> > same user, on the same machine (same $HOME)?
> 
> I am very much against this change if I understood it correctly. It is
> disastrous for the thin client use case.
> 
> It's not unusual that I have a machine where I'm logged in at the console
> and where I later also log in via a thin client connection. This thin
> client connection uses a local XVnc server which is a normal X server that
> uses normal RAM instead of the graphics card. If I understood correctly,
> this would no longer work.
> 
> Even worse is the "published applications" scenario where a user connects
> to a server to just use one application. If the network connection is not
> fast, the X protocol is no good, and something else has to be used, like
> VNC. In many cases a scenario like this is implemented as a XVnc server
> without any desktop where the application is the lone user of that X
> server.  If I understood correctly, this would also no longer work.
> 
> 	-Inge

I didn't see any reactions to this.  Is anybody relaying any of the feedback 
here to the DBUS community? Thiago?