On 7/11/05, John (J5) Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:14 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > > Hey, guys- if I wanted to test this: > > (1) what would I need to do to set it up, exactly? (presume that I > > have all of GNOME running from source, and can patch as needed.) > > You just need to patch gnome-session with Rodrigo's latest patch > (turning it on with whatever the compile switch is - Rodrigo?) and > compile libgnomeservice from CVS.
Would I then need to add anything magic desktop files? remove anything from the extant session? > > (2) how could I tell if it succeeded/failed? What are the > > expectations, design goals, etc.? What new things should I be able to > > do as a user (or admin) that I couldn't do before? What things do you > > expect won't work? > > For right now, I would keep checking that we don't hose the session with > the patch turned on (i.e. everything works as normal). OK. So major design goal at the moment is 'don't break anything, and potentially enable new functionality later'? > Rodrigo, can you > supply Luis with a service that uses the wrapper? You would need that > to check if the service starting code is working properly. Ah, so this is the new functionality? > Future looking we are going to replace the current hard coded services > (like gnome-settings-daemon) as libgnomeservice's and have them start up > using the dependency code. At that point as we patch services you will > be able to check if the services do indeed start in the right order and > even profile to see if there is something we can be doing to get things > started faster. But none of that is ready yet, right? Just verifying. Luis _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
