On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 08:07 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 01:47 -0600, Callum Lerwick wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 09:24 +1100, Darren Steven wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just one question about this thread. Are local and remote the same user? > > > If so, won't there be some reuse of the daemons etc that handle dbus > > > interaction etc. > > > > > > I know with kde that it is a bit scary running 2x sessions as the same > > > user. Things don't always behave. Not sure about gnome > > > > GNOME brings up a dialog warning you that you're already logged in if > > you try and log in twice. Its not very strongly worded, but the > > implication is "please don't do that". > > > > One of the more annoying things is you can't run more than one copy of > > Galeon. Trying to launch a second copy only results in the original copy > > opening a new window in the original session. And the gnome panel tends > > to get a bit flaky. Etc... > > > > IMHO this is really broken. You should be able to log in to GNOME more > > than once. After all, you can log in as many times as you want to a > > shell. Seems like a horrible regression of functionality as far as unix > > philosophy is concerned. > > Hmm, what the heck for? Because Unix and Linux are OSes having been designed to work in a network. > That's what Desktop->Preferences->Remote > Desktop is for, really. What's the case for logging in twice? Because you work in a network ... Standard situations: * You login into your personal "desktop" in your office, and leave for another room, on the same network and want to login there ... * Several monitors on your desktop physically connected to different machines, but with a common and shared (networked) /home underneath. > Shell > and desktop are so totally different that I'm not convinced that they > should operate the same way here (not that my opinion matters, really). The problems underneath are the same. Saving a bash history isn't actually different from saving "Desktop"-setup. > Should we expect all applications that provide GUI to put in a ton of > work to account for a case that a fairly small number of people might > actually use? Yes. That's what GUI-toolkits are for. It's not individual applications which should have to care about, it's the GUI-toolkit which should take care about transparently to the user and to the developer. Ralf -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
