Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Roaming desktop of your choice?

Author:Chris Hanson
Posted:3/12/1999; 11:24:29 PM
Topic:Gnome vs. KDE vs. X
Msg #:4070 (In response to 3993)
Prev/Next:4069 / 4071

The IETF is working on a protocol called ACAP, "Application Configuration Access Protocol". Think of something like the Windows registry or the NEXTSTEP Defaults Database, only using an open wire protocol.

The ACAP web site, http://andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu/cyrus/acap/, has some more information on the protocol. It's not hideously complicated, and is already supported by a couple of commercial applications.

Another choice is to store your preferences on a single global filesystem like AFS. That's how roaming was implemented at Carnegie Mellon University (among other schools), and speaking from experience it's very easy to take such features for granted.

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