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[James Laver]

On 15/06/06, James Laver <james.laver at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15/06/06, Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org> wrote:
> > Le jeudi 15 juin 2006 à 07:14 +0100, James Laver a écrit :
> > > Perhaps a script can be included to make one, perhaps as a deb. I'm
> > > (obviously) quite happy to write the script, perhaps someone can
> > > volunteer to manage the deb. Naturally it would install .desktop files
> > > to link to it.
> > >
> >
> > One solution could be to include a feature in Nautilus (maybe via a
> > Nautilus script) that allows users to right-click on a folder and choose
> > "share this folder with other users". That would set the permissions
> > correctly on this folder, and create a link to this folder on each
> > user's desktop. Choosing "don't share this folder with other users"
> > would revert the permissions as they were before, and remove the link
> > from the user's desktops.
> >
> > --
> > Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>
> >
> >

Apologies, I'm stuck on gmail-lite right now, useless thing lost half
my message...

I like this idea very much, although perhaps Dag's idea below
involving a seperate 'shared' user group is a better way of doing this
than messing with permissions.

--James Laver

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