I personally don't prefer anything to be added at boottime. This can be done after booting up the livecd.
~Sriram On 3/28/07, Srichand Pendyala <srichand.pendyala at gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 11:41 +0530, G N S wrote: > > LiveCD users believe the base system is untouched and no user > > information is collected from the system(if the system is online). For > > people completely new to the system, if the information is migrated > > transparently, it might be a cause for discomfort. On the other hand, > > if the user is prompted, he knows what it is doing and also that he is > > in control. > > Just a thought. > > It can probably be offered as an option when a user boots up a LiveCD. > On the lines of: > > Do you want me to copy all your settings from your Windows partition for > this session? > [Yes] > [No] > [Some settings] > > "[Some settings]" would further allow the user to import what he would > want, and what not. > > Finally, while ending the session, a similar pop up could ask the user > if he would like to write back the changes to the settings. Again, an > option of which settings to write back could be offered. > > What sort of settings could be imported? > > * Browser > Bookmarks, > Cookies, > > * Documents > Symlink(?) /Documents to the My Documents folder on Windows? > > * Desktop settings > Wallpaper > Icon set -> Portable? > > ... ! > > Sounds like an interesting project to hack on! > > Regards, > Srichand > > -- > Srichand Pendyala > MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology > > Phone: +91 988 615 2042 > URL: http://srichand.net.in > > Mukthi 7.04 - A premier student focused free and open source event! > 11th and 12th April, MSRIT > http://mukthi.vrlinug.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20070328/91b11f28/attachment.html>
