User bus conclusion

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 10 de November de 2010 01:21:10 Ryan Lortie wrote:
> hi Matthew,
> 
> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 23:23 +0000, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> > Sorry, I'm I misreading this? Or have you just suggested that we stop
> > supporting one user having multiple logins?
> 
> You can continue running (and using) multiple session buses -- one per
> user.  I suspect that the main desktops and probably the distributions
> will be moving away from this, though.
> 
> I agreed with you that we probably want to support this, but Lennart
> convinced me that the cost outweighs the potential benefits.

That decision requires a bit more thinking and agreeing before it can be made. 
I have just posted this proposal to the KDE main mailing list to see if we 
allow or even support multiple simultaneous user logins.

Current reply is that we do, but there aren't any strong supporters either 
way.

Moreover, there are many use-cases that get broken by the user bus proposal. 
The question is whether they are valid today...

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