Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 5:13 AM, John Hasler<jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
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>> And many apps keep files open while running, leading to lockouts or
>> races.
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> Elucidate.
Firefox.
You can only have a profile open on one machine at a time.
Very annoying.
There is no need to a profile to be tied to exactly one running
instance of the application. Much of the data is stored in sqlite,
which I believe supports this mode of operation. It should be
possible to do this.
Instead of launching FF directly, I launch a wrapper with picks a
different profile based on the machine name (and whether it's under
VNC or not). I keep one profile as the master, and have a script that
syncs the rest to the master profile. I keep any info I want shared
in online systems (i..e, bookmarks, history).
mrc
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