Re: Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 20:44 +, Chris Coulson wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 20:13 +, Ted Gould wrote: > > That's basically what it does, but it also sends out a signal that it's > > going to shutdown to all the applications to allow them to inhibit the > > shutdown for various reasons. > >

Re: Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Coulson
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 20:13 +, Ted Gould wrote: > That's basically what it does, but it also sends out a signal that it's > going to shutdown to all the applications to allow them to inhibit the > shutdown for various reasons. > > http://www.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-session/docs/gnome-session.h

Re: Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread Ted Gould
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 19:40 +, Chris Coulson wrote: > I had a brief look at the gnome-session code when writing the patch, and > it appears that the only thing that it does differently to the FUSA is > block on any applications that are trying to inhibit closing the > session. In this case, it

Re: Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Coulson
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 18:15 +, Ted Gould wrote: > Hello, > > Chris provided a patch for using PolicyKit and ConsoleKit in the FUSA > applet that makes it so that if multiple people are logged in, you can > get a password dialog, and shutdown the system. The way that this works > is that it as

Re: Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 18:15 +, Ted Gould wrote: > But, this is fixed in the new GDM > It's not really the "new" GDM anymore, it's been around a while now Scott -- Scott James Remnant sc...@canonical.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-desktop

Re: Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread hggdh
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:15:38 + Ted Gould wrote: > I feel like today we're given the choice between two bugs: > > * Don't allow restart/shutdown to work with multiple users This will slightly inconvenience the user trying to shutdown the machine. I would expect that an user that has the po

Re: Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread Rick Spencer
On 02/27/2009 10:15 AM, Ted Gould wrote: > Hello, > > Chris provided a patch for using PolicyKit and ConsoleKit in the FUSA > applet that makes it so that if multiple people are logged in, you can > get a password dialog, and shutdown the system. The way that this works > is that it asks ConsoleK

Meeting item: FUSA, passwords vs. session saving

2009-02-27 Thread Ted Gould
Hello, Chris provided a patch for using PolicyKit and ConsoleKit in the FUSA applet that makes it so that if multiple people are logged in, you can get a password dialog, and shutdown the system. The way that this works is that it asks ConsoleKit for the shutdown and restart actions and if they n