Re: settings daemon D-Bus interface proposal

[David Zeuthen <davidz redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 20:51 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So I have one beef with this proposal and that is that it builds upon
> the same idea of a NetworkManagerInfo-ish service. As you might know,
> one of the features we're doing for Fedora 7 is fast user switching;
> it's basically done with what we have in Rawhide. There's one slight
> problem with NetworkManager though - consider this screenshot where "Tom
> Ripley" is a user I just created
> 
>  http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/nm-with-fus.png
> 
> In the background (on another VT) I have my normal desktop running as
> user davidz and since this one was the first to start, the nm-applet
> instance running for davidz gets to tell the system-wide NetworkManager
> daemon what connections to use. This is somewhat broken (but still
> probably good enough for Fedora 7).

(just to spell it out; the bug is that "Tom Ripley" have a "RH Boston"
VPN entry - that one belongs to the user davidz and, of course, trying
to edit it in the VPN connection UI will result in failure.)

     David