Re: Multi-sessioning for GNOME [revisited]

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth ireland sun com>]

I'd like to follow this up off-line, we need to get some common
understanding here.

Colm.

>From: Alan Cox <alan redhat com>
>Subject: Re: Multi-sessioning for GNOME [revisited]
>To: Colm Smyth ireland sun com
>Cc: alan redhat com, Stephen Browne ireland sun com, gnome-hackers gnome org
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>> configuration path dynamically, we can get exactly the
>> combination of session-dependent and session-independent
>> configuration that we want. We also have an open-ended
>> solution that makes the configuration dependent on
>> any desired future variable, not just the current display.
>
>I think in part we are talking at cross purposes. I have no objection to
>the proposal to keep seperate session data. It is unrelated to the issue
>of keeping non session data per display.
>
>My specific concern is that
>
>o	The session file/directory name is generated in the libraries from
>	appropriate environment (hostname, displayname, displaysize ?)
>
>Simply because using a symlink and relying on people to follow it is
>insufficient when the same directory is used for two sessions and the two
>sessions are both live together.
>