RE: Gmail Grrrr.

[Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl>]

Hi Ralf,

>> But, isn't this the whole reason we use different login names and let 
>> people have different home directories with their own configs?
>
> Not necessarily when it's a family computer.

I would almost say especially when it is a family computer. This is how I set it up all the time. That way there is no argument who wants what background, icons, etc. There will be no config mixups, etc.

> Helpful could be different browser profiles.
> Some browser provide this, for others there indeed
> is the need to change to another user just for running the browser 
> with another profile, then xhost and e.g. gksudo are your friends.

Different browser profiles is like the way Outlook (Express) on Windows have/had different profiles. That is a leftover from the old times like Windows 3, 9x, etc when there was no possibility to have different logins. Unix style computers have been multi user from the beginning, so not using that possibility to differentiate between users and then working around that limitation seems weird.

Bonno Bloksma