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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: roaming kde config?
From:       Simon Hausmann <sh () caldera ! de>
Date:       2000-12-19 7:25:40
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On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:28:59PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:32:44PM -0500, Cristian Tibirna wrote:
> 
> > did anybody think of roaming kde config? Using LDAP or some other kind of 
> > server...
> 
> It should be pretty simple to do... simply migrate kstddirs to KURLs and
> have KConfig and the like use KIO instead of QFile/read/write.

....other that KConfig is in kdecore and KIO in libkio which depends on
kdecore ;-)

I think what could fit is to make KConfig not operate on actual files but
instead talk to a simple dcop config server, which handles these things
transparently (and which then can depend on stuff like kio) . I bet it
could even be done in a binary compatible way (only changing KConfig
internals) . But it sounds like quite a massive change, so it would
need good testing (and probably some time to develop that daemon) .

Oh, and...yet another daemon ;-)

Perhaps this is something for post 2.1, and in an optional manner
(like it is disabled by default and sysadmins can turn it on via
some KConfig switch ;) and by commenting out a line in startkde
(to start the daemon) .

Just an idea...

Bye,
 Simon

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