Re: Status Mockups: PART DEUX

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:12:17 +1300, Caleb Gilmour wrote
> 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.

Yeah, really if it's a kiosk (or otherwise public terminal) they should be
wiping all the preferences and starting from scratch for each user, not just
wiping the account list.  I don't really think Gaim should handle anything
along these lines.  They can just replace /home/kioskuser with pre-configured
files or something.

And I don't think we really NEED the ability to have a guest user.  But I
suppose if someone can think of a really sexy way to do that then it'd be ok.
-Mark


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