On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 04:24:53PM +0200, Jarno Gassenbauer wrote: > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 15:27, Moray Allan wrote: > > Hi, your patch sounds good, but just a quick question: > > > > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 02:33, Jarno Gassenbauer wrote: > > > If you hit the cancel button in the gnome logout dialog then GDM will > > > remember your selection until you open the logout dialog again. Of > > > course, the radio button you selected the last time will be > > > pre-activated for you. > > > > Do you mean that if I bring up the dialog, select 'shut down', then > > press cancel, when I next bring up the dialog 'shut down' will still be > > selected? > > > > Yes, that's true. Actually it wasn't planned. > > The reason was that I didn't want to send the logout action change > command to GDM after the user hits 'OK'. It might not arrive in time, > that is, before gnome-session exits. And even if it arrives in GDM in > time, it still has to be resent in time from the GDM master process to > the GDM slave process that runs the X server and gnome-session. The > slave process needs this information to know that it should neither > restart the X server nor provide the login prompt anymore. Rather, it > should tell the master process that the user wishes to log out as if he > had chosen the 'logout' entry from a login prompt menu.
What about simply waiting for the response from GDM before proceeding with the gnome logout ? > Sounds twisted, I know. But the slave process must be notified and > do the actual shutdown request to the GDM master process. Otherwise > the master process doesn't know when the Post Session script is done. > This script is run by the slave process. > > Back to your question, which leads to a question I tried to avoid: > > If the command is sent after pressing 'OK', should gnome-session wait > for the acknowledge from the GDM master process? Currently the user > can wait for us by watching the radio button become sensitive again. > In practice this is so fast that it doesn't even flicker noticeable. So, if it is really fast, there should be no problem in doing it at okay time. > How about having gnome-session wait for GDM's response after hitting > 'OK' and only continue after the response or a timeout? Yep, this sounds reasonable. When the timeout is reached, it will logout, but there is no way to ensure that GDM will effectively logout or not, right ? It would be nice if the timeout was configurable, as a gconf hidden option only maybe. I guess it will only take longer time when you are on non-local sessions, and in this case i doubt people will want to enable this feature anyway. Friendly, Sven Luther > > Opinions? > > Best regards, > Jarno > > > Note to myself: Figure out how to make the gdm master process wait > until the slave process get's to know the new logout action. Have > the master process only then acknowledge to gnome-session. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
