Closed
Bug 133284
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
[RFE} What are the Portable profile requirements
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: Profile: BackEnd, enhancement)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: cslee, Assigned: ccarlen)
Details
The profile needs to be segmented to allow for portability. Computer specific segment that deals with proxy settings, outgoing mail servers and the like. User specific data segment which may or may not include the cach as per user request. Profile manager also needs to be able to read a list of available profiles from a server. Example of situation: My home PC has proxy my work PC does not, at work I use the exchange server as an smtp relay at home I use my ISP, moving from one to another requires constant modification of settings.
Comment 1•22 years ago
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Bug 12911 is at least somewhat related to this. It concerns making paths specified in the profile relative instead of absolute. I'm pretty sure this should be all platforms, all OS's, too. I really like the idea of separating the profile into machine-specific and non-machine-specific sections. There could also be an OS-specific section as well, although this would just as easily be considered part of the machine-specific.
Comment 2•22 years ago
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Resolving as invalid. The bug description is not specific enough. A programmer would not know how to solve the problem.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
This bug is a RFE and requires quite a bit of research by the relevent sections of the mozilla project before being programmed. As it needs to be refined to a point of being usefull to a programmer, maybe this should be a bug to refine the requirements. Changing the sumary and re-opening.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Summary: Portable profile requirements → What are the Portable profile requirements
As a step towards refinement I see a few sections of Profile that need to be separate but dont claim this to be a difinitive list or practicaly achivable: 1: System segment (contains skin and Icons for programm before mozila is started and has acces to user skin, contains pre-user quicklaunch settings - allows for desktop integration) 2: User Preferences (contains user prefs) 3: Network Settings (proxies etc.) 4: Bookmarks 5: History 6: Cache 7: Mail (Mail folders) 8: Mail accounts (Server send and receive settings) 9: linked profiles (conatins information on how to link parts of multiple profiles, eg. network settings from file:///mydocs/user1/network mail from file:///mydocs/user1/mail and http://myhomeserver.com/user2/mail and so on) Hope that helps define it a bit more. But as I say it still needs a lot of refinement and discussion before it is coded.
Updated•22 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: What are the Portable profile requirements → [RFE} What are the Portable profile requirements
Comment 5•21 years ago
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My 2c worth: I think that first step of portability should be ability to easily move the profile around on the same system (without the need to manually edit files who happen to have different standards of path coding - at least in the Windows version). Second step would be ability to use _same_ profile on the _same_ machine from _same_ files but from two different operating systems. That is the problem I have right now - I have Linux and XP on the same machine. For various reasons I have to have them both - now because I use Mozilla exclusively for my e-mails and I can't get to my e-mails half of the time. I think about a way of getting around it (like creating a script that would swap config files in a shared profile each time I boot and close Linux), but it should be much simpler than that. Profile should be divided into two parts - system dependent setting of file paths (that should be it on the same computer) and everything else that could be kept in a directory on a partition visibile to all OS-es on the same machine.
Updated•15 years ago
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QA Contact: ktrina → profile-manager-backend
Comment 6•11 years ago
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We currently separate the "normal" profile from the "local" one (for windows roaming/local) and because of roaming profiles are relocatable. I don't think there's anything left to track here.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago → 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Updated•8 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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