Hello all, I just wanted to get some thoughts down on Session Services and perhaps get some people looking at what has been done so far.
At the last GUADEC I gave a speed talk on what we were doing to improve session startup. We were working on a dependency system that could start up gnome services and make it easy to add or remove services without having to hardcode them as we do now. To achieve this goal we started libgnomeservice in gnome cvs which included a service manager patch to gnome-session. As it stands the the dependency portion of the code need a lot more work. This all sparked the interest of Rodrigo Moya who started working on a wrapper for allowing services to work with the framework before they were integrated with libgnomeservice. This work along with some fixes in dbus activation code is almost complete from what Rodrigo has told me. This allows us to throw a service file in a directory and the service is started on login. While I don't see this being included with the next GNOME 2.12 release many people have been asking for these features and I think it is time we consider fixing up the gnome-session patch to make it conditionally compilable and get people playing with it. I think the lead time needed to fix up all the issues is not that long and distros can start to include at least the wrapper part in the near future and then eventually get it proposed for 2.14. Things that need to be done: * fix up the gnome-session patch so it is conditionally compilable - right now the patch strips out large portions of gnome-session code. * add a switch (or gconf key/env variable) to turn off all the hardcoded services that are started so people can play with the new code in a pure session. * Make sure we handle the new service startup spec from freedesktop.org * Add the dbus patch for handling command line switches when activating services (almost in) * Write up documents on how to integrate with the new session services framework * Add conditionally compiled code to key services so people can play with them * Fix bugs * Profit Anything else? -- John (J5) Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
