[maemo-developers] MADDE 'developer' account - good or bad?

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:

> As many of you go, Nokia Qt SDK uses, through MADDE, a special
> 'developer' account (with it's own home directory) to do stuff on the
> device
>
> That means that it doesn't use the information (databases etc.) stored
> in the users home directory. I'm gradually starting to feel this is a
> bad idea, that leads to subtle problems when developers are trying to
> pretend that they are running their application as default user (and
> hence have direct access to all the data user has).
>
> Discuss :).
>
>
The danger of messing up your install is probably too high if you did
everything as 'user', so while with subtle problems, it is probably still
the less dangerous path. Some sort of clone/restore user data to developer
account *could* be useful though.

Best regards,
Attila
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