2010/5/17 Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>: > On 5/17/2010 3:30, [email protected] wrote: >> Is it planned to provide a graphical multiuser login screen in the first >> release (or maybe in future releases) of MeeGo? > > for the netbook UI, the first release will not have such a thing. > > MeeGo is primarily aimed at very personal devices (for example, some surveys > show that there are classes of people who rather ditch their > girlfriend/boyfriend than to lose their phone). In light of this personal > nature, having multiple users isn't our first priority.
Having cleaned up Maemo from single user reliance in the Mer project, I think it is also important that we early on set as policy that for instance: * Installing/in pre or post scripts in a package into /home/meego/ , just because we assume it's single user, is bad form * Assuming that install scripts are run in an interactive environment / ability to pop up dialogs and interact with user (to some extent, pre-set defaults should be OK), is bad form * Hardcoding /home/meego/ in code or scripts in applications, is bad form. It was really insane how much this abuse had grown in Maemo over the years, including in user applications. Making the system/platform difficult to port and maintain. That we're single user normally, is fine and we don't pop up a login prompt upon boot. But even changing user might be a useful feature in let's say, wall touchscreen panels, TVs, etc. Or devices that are traditionally shared. Would be bad to cut ourselves off for future UX ideas* :) (* I really want a MeeGo wall touchscreen panel in the future where both me, my wife, eventual guests, can interact with and share and using sane security in this) Regards, Carsten Munk _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
