[Design] Multilingualism and security design requests

[Wes Felter]

on 3/7/03 1:25 AM, Edmund Lian at elian@inbrief.net wrote:

> (1) Support for Unicode in particular, and support for languages other than
> English in general. What would be nice is for someone to be able to
> dynamically switch the language used for the UI, and have this preference
> stored as an attribute in a profile/personality/identity. Having this
> feature will make it much easier for people to share a single machine

I can understand sharing a machine, but I don't think having multiple people
share a Chandler process is worth the effort. The correct solution is to
have multiple OS accounts, but even if the Chandler developers (in some fit
of weakness) implement a Mozilla-esque profile manager, it seems reasonable
enough to require quitting and relaunching to switch profiles.

> (2) Some means of encrypting and "time-bombing" local replicas of
> databases. So, if someone does not connect to the source of the replica's
> data within a configurable period of time, the user loses access to the
> data until he/she reconnects to the source for authorization to access the
> data for another set period of time.

I don't think a dead-man switch is enforceable. The user can always use a
modified version of Chandler.

Wes Felter - wesley@felter.org - http://felter.org/wesley/