> Life ends without IRC scrollback, and my 8 year old shares my mp3 > player with me. Logging out is not an option. Yes, what you want is some sort of application migration or persistence. I think the X technology to allow for migration of applications between displays is already developed or being developed as we speak. I remember reading something about this. Now, it would be great if you could write a "remote app selector" that would let you see all the remote apps in a list, and drag one or more of these apps in the current display. > > > > Creating yet another user really won't make the accounts more secure. > > > Just more obscurely located. I thought only MS practiced security > > > through obscurity? ;) > > > > Sure it will; as per your previous statement: using the OS ACL > > mechanisms is a very valid access-control mechanism, and is the one that > > should be respected. > > > > I think the idea is more a "gnome-standard" way to allow the paradigm of > > "use a different user for that purpose". > > > > In any case, it looks like there already is: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsu/ though I hate it when a project's > > homepage goes away, or doesn't exist in the first place. :( > > > > [BTW, there's nothing wrong with security through obscurity ... it just > > can't be the _only_ security you have. Otherwise, pile on the > > obscurity to slow 'em down. ;) ] > > I use obscurity to hide most of my stuff from my 8-year old. > I have no other choice, because the current gnome/linux desktop > just doesn't offer anything better. And so far, obscurity is > enough to hide things from him. > > > > > ...jsled > > > > -- > > http://www.asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo ${a} ${b}` -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) GPG key ID: 0xC1033CAD at keyserver.net
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