Multiseat, Fast-user-Switching

[Fabian Steiner]

Hi :-)

David Zeuthen wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> sorry for the lag,
> 
> On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 15:11 +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
>> [...]
>  [...]
> So some degree of configuration is required. Maybe we don't want to
> support multiseat proper in the first release, but at least the API
> should support it. Personally I think f-u-s is the most interesting case
> to get right but I do realize multiseat is very important for some
> people too. Ideally we'd do both.
> 
> This all ties in very much with PolicyKit - right now we have a lame pam
> module to determine if a user is on the console. We can do much better.
> In fact it might make sense for the ConsoleKit bits to live in
> PolicyKit.
> 
> Not sure how this ties in with LTSP stuff and SunRay stuff. I think both
> instances would somehow just register with ConsoleKit too. Ideally our
> design should cover this too.
> 
> What do you think?

First of all I have to admit that I am not too familiar with D-Bus/HAL
internals (I have only used the Python API so far) but your thoughts
sound pretty interesting and straightforward.

The idea of multiseat and f-u-s is really good and offers a quite large
range of additional possibilities for the user - that's why we should
keep on working on it.

If your work on muliseat should continue (I really hope so!) feel free
to contact me when you need a test setup. I am looking forward to
supporting the development on that point.

Stay tuned :-)

Regards,
Fabian