Re: Assistive Technologies startup

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 20:21, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie> writes:
> 
> > 	Neither option is particularly pretty, though. We currently lack any
> > method by which you can add an application to the saved session without
> > re-saving the entire session. Allowing this would be really nice, but
> > seeing as Bill needs a solution for 2.4, it doesn't really help us.
> 
> I think it falls under 'system services' and are thus session
> independent.  We can have the session manager launch them on startup.
> However, I can see us changing our mind on this in the future[1] if we
> want to have different a11y solutions in different sessions.

Definitely I see potential for wanting different a11y solutions in
different sessions in the future.  I expect we will want to do it.

> Along these lines, should these apps be session managed so they can be
> respawned if killed?

This would probably be desirable.

> > 	To spread further confusion on the subject ... the previously
> > recommended way (according to Bill) to have ATs started on login was to
> > add them to session-manual. If we go with option 2), we need to figure
> > out a mechanism by which we don't end up starting multiple copies of the
> > ATs and also provide a sane migration path.

Well, this was the recommended way (not by me, but in GNOME in general)
of adding things manually to a user session.  And the only non-GUI way.

> It seems the easiest way to do this is to modify the AT's to prevent
> multiple instances from starting up.  That seems nicer than a
> potentially fragile check within the users session.

Based on experience to date I am not sure this is the best approach.
What if an AT gets "stuck?"  And I doubt it's practical to make the ATs
start using complex self-activation/ping-timeout mechanics.

- Bill

> Thanks,
> -Jonathan
> 
> 
> [1] when we get a new gnome-session maintainer.
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