Password protected user profiles

[CartoonMonkey]

From working with students at UCLA:

Password protected user profiles that save shortcuts, rooms, settings, brushes etc.. upon TVPaint startup. ( with a way to retrieve one's password, or skip to a default working profile, of course )

This would be useful for people often working on the same machine, who come into class and find all the settings changed.

Perhaps cloud based sync / sharing of these user profiles?
C

[Elodie]

Interesting request, we will think about it.

[ematecki]

You can already put your configs on an USB stick, which is even better because it will travel with you from computer to computer.

In the popup where you select the config, choose "Change folder", and navigate to your USB stick.
Then create your config there.

[slowtiger]

I think the idea is to prevent other users from using your profile and eventually messing around with it.

Nice idea, very useful in any multiple user environment.

[ematecki]

Well, other users can't really mess with your settings when they are sitting on a USB stick in your pocket...

[slowtiger]

True, but all users like to just start working, without having to check and re-install their settings.

[ematecki]

You don't have to reinstall them.
Just plug the stick, select it with "Change folder", and there you go.
Doesn't take more time than typing in a password.
And you always have them with you.

[swiftsketcher]

Wouldn't individual settings be saved using different profile log-ins on the OSX/W8 level? At my old school, each student logs in or out with their account, with their own preferences saved. I find it surprising if there are just open computers with one account that anybody can just just use versus every student having their own account with their personalized settings that they can log into any machine with.

[CartoonMonkey]

Yes but a feature should also be user friendly!

Having it built into the software, saving profiles locally, with the OPTION to save to a usb thumb drive would be much easier for a user to understand.

Having to explain how to import / export profiles to a USB key is just clunky. Why not have TVPaint have a cloud option, say dropbox / google drive, ftp, etc?
Or better yet, profiles stored on TVPaint servers?

This way, whenever a user logs in, they can reclaim all their settings from their password protected and *locked* profile. When TVPaint is closed, the user options are erased and set to default
unless a user logs in to retrieve their profile. If a user logs into TVPaint to draw and customizes it without saving it to their own password protected profile, all customizations are lost.
This would encourage everyone to use their own specific TVPaint profile.

No one uses usb thumb drives any longer. At least I sure don't.

C

[slowtiger]

At the academy I started to teach recently there's a constant shifting of students from one computer to another, and from several students at the same machine since not every software is installed on each computer. Since there's no network all students have USB sticks to carry their stuff around. No internet.

[ematecki]

Having it built into the software, saving profiles locally, with the OPTION to save to a usb thumb drive would be much easier for a user to understand.

Well, lets say I was trying to explain that this is exactly what TVPaint does....

[CartoonMonkey]

Ah, but without password protection for the profiles..

Sorry, I just think it would be convenient to lock one's profile so that someone else can't change it.

[ematecki]

Ah, but without password protection for the profiles.. :-D

Sorry, I just think it would be convenient to lock one's profile so that someone else can't change it.

That's what user accounts are for.
If we start to implement in TVPaint what a sys-admin does not know how to do, we'll have to add mail/web/tweeter/facebook and what else to TVPaint....

[Mads Juul]

From working with students at UCLA:

Password protected user profiles that save shortcuts, rooms, settings, brushes etc.. upon TVPaint startup. ( with a way to retrieve one's password, or skip to a default working profile, of course )

This would be useful for people often working on the same machine, who come into class and find all the settings changed.

Perhaps cloud based sync / sharing of these user profiles?
C

Why dont they have different user accounts on the computer for each student? This would solve the problem. We used to have this on work. Then photoshop also have different user profiles. We had windows and I think we had roaming profiles. So if you locked on to another computer the profiles wouæd download and it would be like the last computer youbworked on.

[swiftsketcher]

Yes but a feature should also be user friendly!

Having it built into the software, saving profiles locally, with the OPTION to save to a usb thumb drive would be much easier for a user to understand.

Having to explain how to import / export profiles to a USB key is just clunky. Why not have TVPaint have a cloud option, say dropbox / google drive, ftp, etc?
Or better yet, profiles stored on TVPaint servers?

This way, whenever a user logs in, they can reclaim all their settings from their password protected and *locked* profile. When TVPaint is closed, the user options are erased and set to default
unless a user logs in to retrieve their profile. If a user logs into TVPaint to draw and customizes it without saving it to their own password protected profile, all customizations are lost.
This would encourage everyone to use their own specific TVPaint profile.

No one uses usb thumb drives any longer. At least I sure don't.

C

What you're asking for is convenient and makes sense, but you can already do this with user accounts on the OSX/W8 level. The sheer scale of what you are requesting for TVP to do specifically is just not feasible, on top of being costly thing to implement. Not to mention it is redundant, since once again, all personalized settings pertinent to any programs (like TVP) are stored in your OS-level account folders. Everything you are asking for is already possible if you could log in with your own account in OSX/W8. You would have better luck asking your school to invest in a campus network that allows students to create their own account to log in to the computers with. Not only would this give you what you are asking for, but it would mean any program you use on any computer would have your personalized settings saved and ready to no matter which computer you sit down and log into.