Re: Desktop Session Presence Manager

["Øyvind Kolås" <islewind gmail com>]

On 1/23/07, Alex Jones <alex weej com> wrote:
> I'm starting to hack on a little utility that sits on the session bus
> emitting signals to alert any interested applications of session
> presence updates. The idea is that all applications that are interested
> in doing magic things when the user is "away", etc., no longer need to
> have their own code for dealing with it, and that the user does not have
> to set themselves as "Gone to the shops" in more than one application
> (IM clients being the obvious case).
>
> Does anybody have any comments on this idea? Does anybody see anything
> negative about this approach?

It would be nice to hook this up to something that pings my bluetooth phone to
detect its presence.

/Øyvind K.
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