Navindra Umanee wrote:
> IIRC, Irix uses a combination of symlinks and directories.
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           12 Sep 27  1998 .desktop-barbie -> .desktop-ken
> drwx------  5 navindra      512 May 23  1996 .desktop-ken
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           12 Sep 27  1998 .desktop-skipper -> .desktop-ken
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root           12 Sep 27  1998 .desktop-tiffany -> .desktop-ken
> 
> The first time you would ever log on to an Indy, it would ask you
> whether you wanted to use completely independent settings for that
> machine or if you simply wanted to use any previous settings you had
> created on another Indy machine.  If you answered the first, it would
> create a new directory .desktop-<hostname> and if you answered by the
> second, it would simply make .desktop-<hostname> a symlink to the
> previous settings.

This *is* a better way than is done currently (kdelocaldir == $HOME/.kde).
In this setup, kdelocaldir() could equal $HOME/.kde-$HOST.

However, what if the user wants different setups for the same machine?  And
what if the user wants to "share" some (but not all) settings between setups?
There is no way in this mode to do either automagically...
-- 
Kurt Granroth
granroth@kde.org
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