Heya, just wanted to mention that systemd git now as a tiny daemon "hostnamed" which is started on demand via dbus, and whose purpose is exactly three things: provide a PK authenticated way for UI tools to change the hostname, for sending out change signals when the hostname changes and finally to maintain a "pretty" hostname (i.e. "Lennart's PC" instead of "lennarts-pc") and an icon for the local machine. I expect this to be used very soonishly in Avahi, NM, gnome-user-share, Bluetooth and in the GNOME3 configuration tools.
More information on this you find here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/hostnamed Why am I posting this here? Well, first of all, I'd be interested in your comments, since this is hopefully going to be something useful across desktops. Secondly, if people still care for systemd-less systems: the interface is neat and abstract, and doesn't even mention the word "systemd" in it. So if you want systemd features without running systemd this might be something you might want to reimplement in a compatible way. No, I have no plans to make this a separate project. It's too small for the maintainance burden a seperate project would mean, and implementing this within the systemd framework makes this a work of 500 lines only. Also, quite frankly, I have no interest in being nice to those who wouldn't be thankful anyway. Most likely a similar tiny dbus service to change the local time-zone and wallclock time will show up in systemd soon too. And similar for system locale data. Both will also do change events and PK so that they are useful for user config tools. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
