[Wolves] Dropbox as your home directory

[Peter Cannon]

Andy Jewell wrote:

> If there's a FUSE driver to mount your dropbox, it should work.
> 
> But it would probably be slow - unless for instance with Ubuntu One, you make a local replica of your couchdb database (couchdb is what is behind Ubuntu One).

Hm, If you had said "It will be slow due to constant syncing" I would have been
tempted to agree I have stuff like databases ect stored in /home/peter/.dropbox
and cant say I notice any major deficit in performance from applications I should
also say I've not had two machines accessing files simultaneously.

The idea though would be to replace /home/peter with /home/dropbox OK it would
probably still be called /peter but in effect it would be 'your' dropbox folder
stuff like Tbird, Pidgin, etc would install to that folder. The tricky bit would
be ensuring new installs of say Tbird did not overwrite your config file but
rather import the one (potentially) already there.