<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jonathan Hutchins</b> <<a href="mailto:hutchins@tarcanfel.org">hutchins@tarcanfel.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
(Regarding the identity config info that's independent of program preferences,<br>like mail account logins and address book, and their lack of portability.)<br><br>> On Friday 05 January 2007 11:36, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
<br>> > I don't know what the answer is, but there oughta be a better way.<br><br>On Friday 05 January 2007 11:42, Luke -Jr wrote:<br>> Perhaps start a FreeDesktop project for creating common configuration<br>
> files. eg, ~/.irc-client or such<br><br>I don't think we need binary compatibility; that precludes advances in how the<br>info is stored.<br><br>Perhaps something from the old FIDOnet BBS days would be good - a common
<br>format (XML?) user-readable text file that is read whenever it's<br>changed/updated and compiled into whatever format a given program uses; and<br>is updates if changes are made within that program's interface.
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br>A trick from the ms office flaws mitigation toolkit may fit here.<br>It has become common in some workplaces for all the "that user"<br>data on their desktop pc to live in the "My Documents" folder.
<br>The stark simplistic modeling of that is defined as:<br><br>Admin will *TRY* to back up your "My Documents" folder and *ATTEMPT* to restore it if your PC is updated or replaced.<br>Anything you care about should be backed up by YOU using the provided backup methods. Implied of course it that anything NOT in the
<br>"My Documents" folder and NOT backed up by the user may be not there as NO attempt to save other stuff will be made. <br>****Oh, YOU are that "Admin" on your own system of course!*** <br><br>The trick I propose then becomes
<a href="http://simple.in">simple.in</a> concept at least.<br><br>MAKE the location of the data unique to a "user" reside in a defined "folder". Better still- a USB drive AND a defined folder. Then make a template for the new distro or whatever to fill in it's blanks from.
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