Re: Installing the Big Board part of online desktop

[Colin Walters <walters redhat com>]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Yes. Is there a way to automatically sign in on the website when 
> running the mugshot client?
Basically the client picks up cookies from firefox; if you're signed in 
on the website you should be on
the client.  The only caveat is signing out on the web site right now 
does not sign you out on the client.
> mugshot-1.1.33-1.fc6. Mugshot frontpage or my profile pages don't show 
> any prominent links to download the new client. The client download 
> page linked from the developer wiki page has outdated packages at 
> http://download.mugshot.org/client/fedora-core-6/. Automatic prompt at 
> http://mugshot.org/upgrade?platform=linux does point to the latest 
> version though. 
Ah ok, so this was the real problem. 
> There is no quit option in the client either. 
There should be in the latest version on right click, though there might 
not have been in the earlier version.
> Killed the older version and I am running 1.1.40-1 now.  It works.  I 
> will play it with some more and provide feedback.
Cool!
> As I said in FUDCon Boston  binary patches like Firefox (without root 
> password) would be nice but I am probably dreaming. Having it the repo 
> is a workaround.
Just talked with Owen and I think we're going to ensure compatibility 
and turn on the bits that get it pushed into the main Fedora repository, 
so the upgrade
issue should mostly go away.