[Kde-pim] Re: Defining global attributes for a resource

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Wednesday 19 January 2011, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2011 19:36:47 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 January 2011, David Jarvie wrote:
> > > On Tue, January 18, 2011 6:18 am, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > > > David Jarvie wrote:
> > > >> Is there a way to define properties for a resource which
> > > >> applies to all users? Attributes are only per-user, so they
> > > >> aren't suitable for this purpose.
> > > > 
> > > > What do you mean by user in this context?
> > > 
> > > I mean, applying to all users. So, whichever user accesses the
> > > resource, the "global" property would apply. Attributes in my
> > > understanding are user-specific, as are configuration settings
> > > which are stored in ~/.kde/share/config/ .
> > 
> > Are you aware that each user is supposed to run his own Akonadi
> > session and use his very own database? Having this in mind, your
> > question doesn't seem to make much sense.
> 
> I thought that the Akonadi database and resources were common to all
> users, and just attributes were user specific.  Evidently this was a
> misunderstanding.

Yes. Multi-user support was explicitly excluded from the design because 
that would have required proper user management including 
authentication, protection of other users' data, etc. Since all relevant 
current OSes offer proper multi-user support we chose not to re-invent 
this wheel.


Regards,
Ingo
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