[haiku-development] Re: Multi-user is a mistake
- From: Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:55:19 +0100
On 2014-01-07 at 17:41:04 [+0100], John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I've been thinking a bit about post R1 features and I see that there is a
> clear motivation to eventually add multi-user capabilities to Haiku and I
> feel that this is a mistake. Haiku should remain a single user OS.
[...]
> The problem of security is orthogonal to multi-user, one should not
> influence the decision to utilize, or not utilize the other.
Yes. How is your ranting against multi-user focusing on sandboxing, which
is a security feature, then?
The way I see multi-user for Haiku is not anything like what you get in
current GNU/Linux systems. I believe a lightweight multi-user scheme would
be useful still. You want the web browser to remember your
gmail/facebook/whatever account, not the one from the other family member
that used your computer before. The same applies to the "recent documents"
list in Deskbar, and possibly some other settings: font size (my parents
prefer a big one as that's easier on the eyes, I want a smaller one to make
better use of the screen space), mouse speed, desktop background, etc.
This could be done even without having a completely separate "home"
directory - just home/config/settings. There is no need to hide files to
other users or anything like that.
User switching would integrate with our planned session saving/restoring.
The state of all apps for the current user would be snapshotted, and
restored next time the user logs in (and this would work accross reboots,
making the feature useful also when there is a single user).
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