Re: Desktop roaming ?

[David Helder <dhelder umich edu>]

Another wishlist item is being able to run Gnome on multiple computers
using the same configuration files (eg, having a home directory on NFS).  
Or is this already possible?

David


On Tue, 2 May 2000, Seth M. Landsman wrote:

> On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:29:02PM +0300, Petri Heinilä wrote:
> > I have gnome in my working computer and home computer and
> > getting tired to reconfigure same settings to other machine
> > after done to the other.
> > 
> > So, does gnome has desktop roaming support, like netscape
> > has on bookmarks, addressbook, .. ?
> > 
> > I tried to simply directory copying, but there is too
> > much dot files and directories to keep system managable
> > and I have not idea what dots may be copied and what not,
> > if thinking for example session management files.
> 
> 	I've given a *HUGE* amount of thought to it, but haven't actually
> written any code yet.  I have a design in mind for a daemon which talks to
> a centralized server.  There would be some wrapper script which enables
> programs which don't know how to deal with the daemon to use the roaming
> config files.
> 
> 	I'm probably going to start hacking up code later this week or
> next.  Talk to me off line if you want to help ...
> 
> -Seth
> --
> "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion"
> 

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