Re: [Evolution-hackers] online/offline in e-d-s

[JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 18:09 -0500, David Malcolm wrote: 
> On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 21:29 -0700, Sivaiah Nallagatla wrote:
> So is online/offline a per-user property? a per-machine property? Both?
> 
> GConf is for per-user preferences.  If I've got an NFS-mounted home
> directory shared between several machines, each sharing the same GConf
> database, do the machines have to go online/offline simultaneously when
> the state changes?
> 
> Would it be better to do this using the D-Bus session bus?

For me the issue is we have no standard for this currently, we can use a
gconf key for now and as long as we have a single point that determines
online/offline, we can change this fairly easily.

-JP
-- 
JP Rosevear <jpr novell com>
Novell, Inc.