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From: wnn@ornl.gov (Wolfgang N. Naegeli)
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Subject: Re: Per-User Preferences (was: Extended command keys.)
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In article <1990Sep4.172034.23034@cbnews.att.com> jbr0@cbnews.att.com 
(joseph.a.brownlee) writes:
> what the Mac needs is the ability to have a
> pseudo-login facility.  This facility would be an extension of the 
existing
> Chooser functionality that would identify you as a particular user, and 
would
> allow those applications that need them to save per-user preference data.
> . . .
> Perhaps some
> preference somewhere would allow you to be prompted for your identity at
> startup.

Good idea to tie the Chooser name into these personal preferences sets! 
Users often forget to,
or are too lazy to, change the Chooser name. Since they are much more 
likely to feel a real
need to load their own preferences, we whould get a much higher rate of 
correct Chooser names.

Prompting on startup is useful, but not fool proof because users do not 
necessarily restart the
Mac when taking control of it. This really is the weak link in any of 
these schemes. Maybe one
day there will be keyboards with inexpensive finger-print scanners built 
right into the keys.

Wolfgang N. Naegeli
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