On Mon, 17 May 2010 12:21:17 -0600, Carsten Munk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Those are completely separate issues. MeeGo certainly strives to be LSB compliant - and this wouldn't qualify. But it's a good thing to call out here and make sure everyone is aware of it. > 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) I don't know if we are testing this at the moment - but I know that we have done some work on being able to have multiple accounts in the past... /D _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
