[Nepomuk] Re: same nepomuk db for several users

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Thursday 02 December 2010 18:25:36 Ralf Warmuth wrote:
> 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?

There's a more generic case: users on different comps wanting to share *some* 
metadata but not all. Everything else is a specific case, which might make 
sense to optimize once we get the generic sharing part going.

-- 
Evgeny