[Nepomuk] Re: same nepomuk db for several users

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Thursday 02 December 2010 12:39:59 Bruce Adams wrote:
> Hi,
>     Sorry for jumping in.
> Perhaps I missed the point of a semantic desktop. Surely its critical and
> basic to be able to share
> information between users. Imagine if we used different file names for the
> files? It would be chaos.
> 
> I am concerned that not considering a shared user model up front might mean
> a fundamental redesign
> would be required to support it. Can you offer any re-assurance?

Current APIs won't stop working if some other source of metadata appears, like 
another user. As to the implementation, it's been considered but there's only 
so much time devs have and this isn't the only area which needs work.

> ----- Original Message ----
> 
> > From: Sebastian Trüg <trueg at kde.org>
> > To: nepomuk at kde.org
> > Sent: Thu, December 2, 2010 8:49:51 AM
> > Subject: [Nepomuk] Re: same nepomuk db for several users
> > 
> > This is tricky. It could be hacked with links indeed. But then no two
> > users  could ever be logged in at the same time.
> > Why do you want to share the  database?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Sebastian
> > 
> > On 12/02/2010 01:24 AM, Markus  Leuthold wrote:
> > > Hello list
> > > 
> > > 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?
> > > 
> > > best  regards
> > > Kusi

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Evgeny