[Ids-devel] More IDS fun (bugfix and MultiUser)

[Jon H. <jo...@hi...>]

You can look at the patch located at
http://www.hittner.com/patch/symlink.patch
which can be applied to 0.7b1 

This patch does 2 things
1-There is a small bug in idsShared where preview icons witll not be
created if the album is a symlink and not a directory.

2-This is the big change... John, I know your looking to get .7 out quick,
so mabey save it for .8 .  This patch does not totaly add multiuser
support, but its a groundwork.

The patch adds a prefrence when creating a new album to use an existing
album, so you can enter /home/user1/pics and then user1 can create his own
albums under that dir.   I couldnt find a way to handle security well, so
what I did was have it look for a file called .ids in the top of the
symlink tree.  Another words, there MUST be a file /home/user1/pics/.ids
for the album to be created.   I figure this would also be a good
placeholder for a per-user configuration file when IDS is eventially
totally multi-user.

Mabey next have it look for a themes directory, or a album level conf file
in these symlinked albums?

Opinions?

Jon