Re: GNOME 2.10 module proposal: libnotify and notification-daemon

[Nielsen <nielsen memberwebs com>]

John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 15:18, Nielsen wrote:
> > I'd just like to chip in and say that I've been wondering about this 
> > myself. I'm the maintainer for seahorse which installs an 'agent' daemon 
> > process.
> >
> > Currently it seems (could be wrong here) there's no way to have a daemon 
> > start and install environment variables in the users session. 
>
> You can't install environment variables unless you are the parent
> process.  DBus does this by spawning the xsession with dbus-launch.

Right, but it would seem this only works for one daemon. The traditional 
way to start such a daemon is in the users shell rc, something like this:

eval `daemon-process`

... and have the daemon output the environment variable code before it 
exits. However this isn't compatible across shells. If gnome-session 
could set these variables it would be easier to install.

> > I think 
> > DBUS does this somehow, but having some sort of plugins into 
> > gnome-session would make this possible apps that don't come with the 
> > distro. It would also make supporting multiple sessions for the same 
> > user much easier.
>
> I think I agree with Havoc in saying that in-process plugins within
> gnome-session is a scary thought being that any buggy third party plugin
> can cause a system to not be able to log into the desktop.  

Yes, I agree. By 'plugins' I meant running processes and scripts, with a 
little more integration. In my case I'm rooting for being able to set 
environment variables, but there may be other ways that the scripts 
could interact with gnome-session.

Nate Nielsen