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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: (oops) Re: DCOP question
From:       Roberto Alsina <ralsina () unl ! edu ! ar>
Date:       1999-11-17 16:56:58
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On 17 Nov 1999, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Roberto Alsina <ralsina@unl.edu.ar> writes:
> 
> > > All of the above work for me with a read-only home directory, _given_
> > > _the_ _obvious_ _limitation_ of not being able to change something.
> > 
> > Let's put things in perspective.
> > 
> > News works... except you can't subscribe to groups, and the reader doesn't
> > remember what you have read, or your score/kill settings.
> > 
> > Mail works... except you can't have an addressbook, save a message, change
> > any settings, or forward the mail automatically somewhere else.
> 
> IMAP can be used for reading/writing mail/news without having
> write-access to your home directory. Addressbooks can be kept in LDAP
> or in a database.

Since no KDE mailer supports either IMAP or LDAP addressbooks, this is
rather immaterial here. Let's just say KMail will not work.

> > Netscape works... except you have no cache, no bookmarks, no proxy
> > settings.
> 
> Cache is in /tmp, all settings is read from home directory..

Netscape's cache is in ~/.netscape/cache, or isn't it?
 
> > bash history works... except it is not kept from one session to the next,
> > and you can't configure bash at all.
> 
> My home directory is readable, all my init-files are found there. I
> can set HISTFILE to /tmp/blaha if I want to in .bashrc. I don't really
> find this a big problem so I haven't bothered.

/tmp/blaha is not guaranteed to be there on next login.
 
> If konqy pops up a window telling me "Can't write bookmark: Permission
> denied" I don't see how I would get the impression that it worked.
> 
> Perhaps we're making a chicken of a feather here -- I'm not saying KDE
> should work perfectly if you don't have write permissions to your home
> directory, I'm just saying it should do what's possible to do (pop up
> a window with an error if the user try to write something) and my
> experience is that this is already the case, except for the dcopserver
> (which is required for anything to work, it seems) temporary files
> which can now be placed elsewhere with a environment variable.

It is very hard for some applications. KRN, for example, will fail
completely to work if you can't write to ~/.kde/share/apps/krn.

Any KDE app will fail to be configured at all if it can't write to
~/.kde/share/config

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