Re: make gnome listen on localhost:*

[Matthew Kirkwood <weejock ferret lmh ox ac uk>]

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Dan Siemon wrote:

> > All we want is a safe default and a panel applet which does
> > the equivalent of:
> >
> > dialog --yesno "ADVANCED: Allow communication with\nremote desktops" \
> >         15 50 && echo ORBIIOPIPv4=1 >>.orbitrc
>
> Although the above solution would work I think this setting should be
> more specific.  Modifying .orbitrc will effect all apps that use ORBit
> whether they are GNOME related or not. ORBit is not specific to GNOME.
> A GNOME

Of course.  I wasn't actually advocating this.  (That I do think
it would be a good idea anyway is not relevant here.)

> control center option that effects all ORBit apps is just wrong.

Agreed:

s/\.orbitrc/.gnome\/orbitrc/g;

But my point stands.

Matthew.