Hi, On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 18:22 -0500, Manuel Amador wrote: > Oh, this is good. Any plans to moving to a system-wide daemon model?
Moving to a solely system-wide model? No. The security implications of a daemon running as root that monitors all the files on the system can get hairy. If you keep it per-user, then the security is fairly simple filesystem permissions. That said, there is a lot to be gained by having a shared store for a lot of interesting, publicly available system-wide data. Things like launchers, man pages, etc. are definitely useful to the user. Right now we're indexing those for each user, but this is obviously suboptimal. We don't have a concrete plan for this right now, but there are a few options: we could have an instance of the daemon running as user nobody which monitors some interesting directories (like the man paths); we could have a shared read-only index crawler ala updatedb run once a day or so. But it's not something we've sat down and prototyped or investigated in depth yet. Joe _______________________________________________ gnome-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list
