On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:33 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri 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?) > --enable-services
Also, it would be great if you could test --disable-services to come back to the old gnome-session, and see if the patch breaks anything. > and > compile libgnomeservice from CVS. > and apply the patches (*.patch) that are in libgnomeservice CVS. That will make some services (nautilus, gnome-volume-manager, metacity, panel) use the new infrastructure. > > (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). 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. > as I said, apply the *.patch files, compile all the affected modules. To make sure all services are started, first, check they are really started (that is, nautilus is running, etc), then, for other non-visual services, see if the process is indeed running. -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
