Re: Status Mockups: PART DEUX

On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 21:06:30 -0600, Tim Ringenbach <omarvo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sean Egan wrote:
> 
> >Having a special "Guest Login" is just silly; a much better solution
> >would be to detect a running Gaim process on start, and if one is
> >found, show a Mozillaesque "Select Profile" dialog which would set the
> >config dir appropriately.  Hence giving users the ability to use -c
> >without needing to know about it.  This way when a guest wants to use
> >Gaim, he can create his own "profile".
> >
> >
> >
> Maybe. Then again, from time to time we get requests to put gaim in a
> guest-only mode for kiosk/public computer use. I wonder if the two ideas
> could be combined into something that doesn't suck.
> 
> --Tim

Uh.. gaim -c /dev/null should work for that. I just tried it, and
signed onto a couple of accounts. No real problems, apart from the
expected inability to create /dev/null/prefs.xml and so on.


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