Chris Warburton wrote: > Hi thanks for the input. I realise that such a proposal is quite open > ended, thus I tried to split it into relatively clear steps to go > through to try and prevent both blue sky designing and worrying about > issues that end up not appearing in the implementation. > > I think stage 1, the discussion, should be a quite technical discussion, > ie. throw some ideas into the aether and decide which of those is > possible. My own train of thought was about having Telepathy running as > a central, standard system to use for presence. Presence would cover > general key:value type data, ie. Location:Home, Status:Busy, Activity:On > The Phone, etc. (those are just examples). There may need to be an > agreed upon standard for the naming here, if multiple programs and > desktop environments are going to use it. > IMHO what you need is a central daemon that only performs a few actions and communicated via D-BUS. You just have to set a D-BUS protocol so that programs can set/get the state: Telepathy can set it, but also retreive it when starting - this way the daemon can test some system parameters and decide of a certain state automatically depending on the network, on the battery...
Maybe gnome-session could be the place to do so. And network settings has a profile management that you could integrate. Just ideas... Cheers -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss