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Em 21-05-2012 20:03, pjssilva@xxxxxxxxx escreveu:
> I am not completely sure about this statement. Surely there is a great
> part of the setup that is too low level to be considered here. But it
> would be nice to come out with a specification of how the user should
> perceive the possibility of using multi-seat in the graphics shell
> (that is unity). There is some similarities with the support for
> multiple monitors in Unity, I believe.
>
> Some questions that come to my mind:
>
> 1) How should Unity behave if it sense two (or more) graphics cards
> with monitor attached? Should it treat them as a multi-monitor or a
> multi-seat system?
>
> 2) How should a wizard do configure multi-seat should look and feel?
>
> 3) How to transfer the permissions to mount new USB or other
> hot-plugged devices?
>
> Answers to those questions seem, IMHO, associated to this list.
>
> Anyhow, any discussion should be preceded by the discussion if it is
> desirable to treat multi-seat as a major feature in the Ubuntu system
> or not.

Fair enough. To be clear, I think this is a very interesting
feature that deserves being major. I just tend to be a
little skeptical when I perceive a big distance between
when the design discussions happen and when we actually
will have the infrastructure to implement them.