Fedora Core formalism

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> >On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:58, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> >> Well, for one thing the Gnome printer setup tool is nicely done.
> >
> >Interesting.  That's one of the reasons I first fell in Love with KDE... they 
> >too the commotion of ill-fated attempts at printer config tools, each distro 
> >using their own home-baked method, and brought the functionality into KDE as 
> >just another settings entry.
> 
> One of the major things KDE and GNOME do is fiddle ownership and
> permissions of various devices so that the logged in user at the desktop
> can address things like scanners without having to either open the devices
> to the world or require the user to understand how the system works.  This
> is one of the operations that contributes to long startup times with KDE.
> 
> While this is probably critical if one is going to have wide acceptance of
> Linux on the desktop, it effectively turns a multi-user machine into a
> single-user box for the logged in user.
> 
> On the other hand, there are probably other ways to accomplish this type of
> access as OS X allows multiple desktop logins with their ``Fast User
> Switching'' feature which permits multiple logins, although only one can
> have the desktop at a time.  I haven't looked under the hood on OS X to see
> how they manage to allow access to devices for different users.

Ah.... I thought we had that in Linux as well? Yeah, just checked my
blue KDE K-button on the tool bar and it has "Switch User" - "Lock
Current and Start New Session" right there. Never used it though. Not
about to either. <cackles> Ric

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