On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 19:05 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > > 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. > how would we include the wrapper program without having the gnome-session part of it for 2.12?
> 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. > I'm working on this now. > * 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. > what do you mean with this? > * 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) > cool > * 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? > from all my tests, this is, IMO, ready to be tested for 2.12. So, I would suggest we add the gnome-session conditionally compiled code (once I finish it), make that the default so that we force people to test it, and if big errors are found, come back to the old gnome-session thing by default. -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list