Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- Subject: Re: Let's hope XP doesn't keep this "one-up" on OS X!
- From: Don Messerli <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 17:47:02 -0400
It is much more than a virtual-desktop hack.
It has to do with switching between multiple user profiles,
Preferences, home directories, etc.
This is probably easier to do in a Unix and MacOS environment than it is
under Windows. Windows loads this all up when a user logs in whereas Unix
uses environment variables.
Don
On 7/4/01 5:29 PM, "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Wednesday, July 4, 2001, at 02:17 PM, j o a r wrote:
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> On onsdag, juli 4, 2001, at 10:56 , John C. Randolph wrote:
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>> No, NeXTSTEP never had any kind of hot-swap-users feature like that.
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>> Of course, it would be much easier for Apple to implement this on Mac
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>> OS X than it was for MicroSquish to do it on XP, I'll bet.
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> We would like to think so anyway... ;)
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> In reality the important thing is that they _have_ this wonderful
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> feature - and we don't.
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If you really want it, then write it. It's not much more work than
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implementing a virtual-desktop hack.
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-jcr
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