Thanks for your email, I just asked yesterday morning Vincent about the status of the dbus-based branch and this answers my questions.
William Jon McCann wrote: > I agree with that. Logout handling is broken too. The XSMP protocol > not only allows applications to be notified on logout (aka shutdown) > but also allows any registered application to block logout altogether. > Windows XP used a similar approach. However, in Windows Vista they > rejected that model and proposed a much better one: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms700677(VS.85).aspx You should not forget we are on much different grounds: they were abused by applications and had to stop them blocking things; that situation can be handled differently with free software, those applications can just be fixed. (also I believe there are less abusive application developers in the free software development world.) > Blocking shutdown is not only the wrong solution but it is also an > incomplete one. One of the primary use cases here is burning a CD. > In the near future, switching users will also cause a CD burn to fail. Why would switching user cause a CD burn to fail? I was used to start a CD burn then to fast-user-switch and hand over the computer to a roommate. > What do you think? Nice work! I am also interested in your clarification to Callum (will XSMP support still be there for legacy applications) ? and what about KDE, do they have similar thoughts about the session process ? Frederic _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
