On Thursday 02 December 2010 18:25:36 Ralf Warmuth wrote: > Am Donnerstag 02 Dezember 2010, 17:01:23 schrieb Sebastian Trüg: > > On 12/02/2010 03:38 PM, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote: > > >>> We share our computer among several persons, each with a > > separate > > > >>> user account. We want to have a shared nepomuk database. What's > > the > > > >>> best way to do this? Creating a symlink of > > ~/.kde/share/apps/nepomuk > > > >>> to a shared folder? > > >> > > >> This is tricky. It could be hacked with links indeed. But then no two > > >> users could ever be logged in at the same time. > > > > > > I think that could cause a few other side effects... Ratings will be > > > shared among users, so there is no possibility to have different > > > opinions about a file or a song or whatever; a user could know the > > > existence of files and their relative metadata in a folder owned by > > > another user where he doesn't have access; also having just one > > nepomuk > > > > database could cause issues to some applications that suppose to > > have a > > > > single user database (i.e. telepathy-kde). > > > > > > I'd rather wait to have a metadata sharing system that just shares what > > > is supposed to be shareable. I think that Sebastian and Vishesh were > > > planning at aKademy to use xmmp to share metadata with jabber > > contacts, > > > > is there any relative progress? > > > > Sadly there was no real progress so far. It's only plans.. > > _______________________________________________ > > Nepomuk mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk > > Hi, > what about making Nepomuk a system service with a shared and a user > repository? Might this be that tricky too?
There's a more generic case: users on different comps wanting to share *some* metadata but not all. Everything else is a specific case, which might make sense to optimize once we get the generic sharing part going. -- Evgeny _______________________________________________ Nepomuk mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/nepomuk
