Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?
On Saturday 11 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote:
> >
> > Suggesting another DE is sort like suggesting I speak another
> > language. I've got 5+ years invested in understanding the crap pile
> > that is KDE. Better the devil I know.
>
> Well I wasn't really suggesting you switch, just explaining why I can't
> give any KDE advice.
Sorry, I misunderstood.
>
> > > Regarding the lockout problem you mentioned, are you logged in on
> > > multiple computers at the same time as the same user? There are a
> > > few apps I know of that do not like that. Firefox/Iceweasel for
> > > one, and I think OpenOffice as well.
> >
> > Yes, that's my intention and yes, many apps resist this, KDE itself
> > being the real thorn in my side. I might try again watching for
> > version mismatch.
>
> Just curious, is there a reason why you need to be logged into multiple
> machines at once?
Convenience.
>
> I see this come up on the LTSP list every once in a while where a
> school wants to have everybody in the lab log in as "student". The
> consensus on that list is that it isn't worth the trouble to make that
> work. Better to tape a username and password to each monitor (student1
> / password1 ; student2 / password2 ; etc). But I'm doubting that you'd
> want to do this.
>
> -Rob
I suspected there were no good answers when I posted. I'm surprised there
weren't more "me too" replies. I would have thought others were
inconvenienced by DE's one-time-one-place paradigm.
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