I'm guessing that this is a desktop question as opposed to a devel question, but I'm not on the -desktop list and here seems like the next best place...
What exactly is ~/Public being used for? A regular user may thing that places files there makes them... public.
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I'm guessing that this is a desktop question as opposed to a devel question, but I'm not on the -desktop list and here seems like the next best place...
What exactly is ~/Public being used for? A regular user may thing that places files there makes them... public.
AFAIK there's some code in GNOME which shares those files. KDE 4 doesn't support it. KDE 3 had some sort of user file sharing (disabled by default and had to be manually configured), but it never got ported to KDE 4.
Kevin Kofler
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I'm guessing that this is a desktop question as opposed to a devel question, but I'm not on the -desktop list and here seems like the next best place...
What exactly is ~/Public being used for? A regular user may thing that places files there makes them... public.
AFAIK there's some code in GNOME which shares those files. KDE 4 doesn't support it. KDE 3 had some sort of user file sharing (disabled by default and had to be manually configured), but it never got ported to KDE 4.
Kevin Kofler
Okay. I'll browse through the existing fedora repository and kde-apps.org to see if there is anything to make use of it. Also, a user I was helping last night wanted a locally shared (filesystem, between users) folder... seems like it's something that should be easy. It was easy for me, but I am not sure how a regular user would approach the problem.
It may be useful to have a /usr/shared (or similar) and ln -s /usr/shared /home/*/Desktop/Shared
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Also, a user I was helping last night wanted a locally shared (filesystem, between users) folder...
That's what /tmp is. :-)
That said, it's a bad thing to store stuff there because it can get cleared out automatically. But as a transfering mechanism it's OK, just not as a storage mechanism.
Kevin Kofler
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Also, a user I was helping last night wanted a locally shared (filesystem, between users) folder...
That's what /tmp is. :-)
That said, it's a bad thing to store stuff there because it can get cleared out automatically. But as a transfering mechanism it's OK, just not as a storage mechanism.
If you're referring to /tmp, I found that out myself the hard way.
Same user I was helping was interested in a way of sharing files locally. So having a "supported" minimal solution to share files may be useful. Samba seems a bit heavy handed for that. And NFS only works with MacOS and Linux easily. Although last time I tried it with MacOS it wasn't very intuitive.