Re: MOTD in g-s-d

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 19:10 +0100, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> On 15.11.2007 14:35, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > Looking at my bugs in bugzilla, I found this patch I wrote long time
> > ago:
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159604
> > 
> > This patch has been in the openSUSE package for all this time, and it
> > works great. Since it doesn't seem to fit well in gnome-session, what do
> > you think about having this as a module in g-s-d?
> > 
> > It works in a way that, if nothing is in the /etc/motd file, it doesn't
> > show anything, and if it's changed, the user is notified immediately
> > with a notification bubble.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> Haven't looked at the patch, but I think the comments on the bug
> are spot on: Why would you want to put a once-at-login activity
> into a long-running daemon? I don't see much of a difference between
> gnome-session and g-s-d in that respect.
> 
> We have an autostart mechanism, and it should be trivial to do
> with zenity, for example.

Agreed.