On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 10:28 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > The gnome-session 2.13.92 changes the location in which it looks for > autostart files from /etc/xdg/autostart (which is the > xdg-spec-mandated location) > to /usr/share/autostart (which is what kde used for a long time for > something similar). > it's $prefix/gnome/autostart, to not interfere with KDE.
> While we generally agree that datadir is a better location for these files > than > sysconfdir, simply changing this api this late in the game, and moving away > from > the xdg spec, is a bad idea. We are a few days away from shipping FC5, > and all our packages have been carefully patched to put their autostart > files where gnome-session used to look for them, in /etc/xdg/autostart. > in GNOME CVS, only gnome-power-manager used this. And it is already patched. > IMO, changing this interface this late in the release cycle is not acceptable. > If anything, Rodrigo could have made it so that /usr/share/autostart is > consulted in addition to /etc/xdg/autostart. But he did not do that, although > it was proposed in bug 330397. > again, since only 1 module in GNOME CVS uses it, why would we need to support the old directory? I can add that code if you want, but I see no point in doing it, since no applications use that directory (at least in GNOME CVS). -- Rodrigo Moya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
