On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 12:07 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 15:48 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > I would recommend that gnome-shell uses systemd to suspend, and I would > > recommend gnome-shell, gnome-session and gdm also drop their ConsoleKit > > session tracking code. At the end of the day, the decisions are not mine > > to make, so if the costs of keeping those options are low enough for > > you, then feel free to keep them. > > But in reality, the set of git repositories forms a whole. And if > gnome-settings-daemon doesn't support !systemd, then the whole doesn't > either. So if you decide to delete this code from g-s-d, it makes the > work of anyone else completely pointless. > > Broadly speaking, I don't think it makes sense for this to be up to > individual module maintainers as they please, because the result is > incoherent.
The result would be incoherent. Except that I cannot take decisions for other module maintainers, for fear of being seeing as overbearing and (paraphrasing) "thrusting changes upon GNOME which would then get whitewashed as maintainers discretion". > Now, this is obviously not a new debate. One option which I'd like to > preserve at least is that !systemd platforms are able to build and run > GNOME in "basic window management" mode. Basically the equivalent of > thin client/remote X display. It won't crash if logind isn't available, we'd just disable the power plugin. > So we could say we don't support power management for example. In that > case, you could support being compiled without systemd support (at > present), and just do nothing if it doesn't exist. Or it could be > runtime detection. Given that there are no library dependencies, it would always be run-time detection, as it was and as it will be. No change there. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
