On Sun, May 06, 2007, Tim Dijkstra wrote: > For me it doesn't make sense. DBus aims to be more generic than just > for gnome. You didn't make really clear why it should be started from > gnome-session instead of during the X start-up. If you try to sneak in > extra information into DBus' environment, that could be annoying for > people who use an occasional gnome program, but do not use > gnome-session.
gnome-session is the canonical way to properly start a GNOME session, with a working GNOME stack. If a normal GNOME session needs dbus, then I find it quite normal that gnome-session spawns it instead of relying on the distributor to integrate dbus in the startup before gnome-session. In fact, you can go even farther and say that each individual application needing the session dbus should arrange for it being present, which is the case with recent DBus: but this is already solved by newer DBus which will spawn a session dbus if any app needs to access it. Yes, starting dbus from gnome-session is a broken design, but it will work in more cases than the current way of starting it, and it will more consistent across distributions; I think we would benefit from switching to this startup style. -- Loïc Minier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
