[Nepomuk] Re: same nepomuk db for several users

[Sebastian Trüg]

On 12/02/2010 03:38 PM, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote:
>>> We share our computer among several persons, each with a separate
>>> user account. We want to have a shared nepomuk database. What's the
>>> best way to do this? Creating a symlink of ~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk
>>> to a shared folder?
>>
>> This is tricky. It could be hacked with links indeed. But then no two
>> users could ever be logged in at the same time.
> 
> I think that could cause a few other side effects... Ratings will be
> shared among users, so there is no possibility to have different
> opinions about a file or a song or whatever; a user could know the
> existence of files and their relative metadata in a folder owned by
> another user where he doesn't have access; also having just one nepomuk
> database could cause issues to some applications that suppose to have a
> single user database (i.e. telepathy-kde).
> 
> I'd rather wait to have a metadata sharing system that just shares what
> is supposed to be shareable. I think that Sebastian and Vishesh were
> planning at aKademy to use xmmp to share metadata with jabber contacts,
> is there any relative progress?

Sadly there was no real progress so far. It's only plans..