On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:57 +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:14, Waldo Bastian wrote: > > First draft, your feedback is highly appreciated. > > > > Please send all comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-July/007061.html and > > follow ups for previous discussion. > > I think the autostart on login part is fine, > > Any objections to also adding: > > Scripts in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/environment will be sourced, this gives a > way for the user and/or admin to influence the environment. > > Scripts in lower priority environment directories should be sourced > first so scripts in higher priority directories can override the values > they specify for environment variables. > > Scripts will be called with the desktop name as the first parameter > (KDE, GNOME, ROX, XFCE) making it possible to set up the environment > dependend on the desktop when necessary > > This would allow setting things like $GPG_AGENT_INFO in a uniform manner?
This can all be done with other scripts already. If you want it per app you can set up a wrapper to execute from the desktop file. No reason to add this to the spec. > > Regarding the autostart on new media, not sure if this should be in the same > spec, or a different one > > > The desktop environment MAY ignore autostart files based on policy set by > > the user or system administrator. > > the standard should specify how to set this policy IMO You need a common configuration system for that first. > What kind of possibilities do we want here: > - 1 global setting or more granular (per media-type, dependend on > CD-label, ...) Getting too complicated. > - maybe an option to only run it if a signature by an approved (gpg)key is > present? This might be nice actually. The script itself would have to be signed. I would turn it on by default in fedora if we had this. -- John (J5) Palmieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
