[Nepomuk] Re: same nepomuk db for several users

Ralf Warmuth r.warmuth at schumbi.de
Thu Dec 2 17:25:36 CET 2010


Am Donnerstag 02 Dezember 2010, 17:01:23 schrieb 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..
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Hi,
what about making Nepomuk a system service with a shared and a user 
repository? Might this be that tricky too?


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