Re: Gnome Session Services Framework

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:38 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> On 7/11/05, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:14 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > > Hey, guys- if I wanted to test this:
> > > (1) what would I need to do to set it up, exactly? (presume that I
> > > have all of GNOME running from source, and can patch as needed.)
> > 
> > You just need to patch gnome-session with Rodrigo's latest patch
> > (turning it on with whatever the compile switch is - Rodrigo?) and
> > compile libgnomeservice from CVS.
> 
> Would I then need to add anything magic desktop files? remove anything
> from the extant session?
>  
no, you'll just see some services, like the panel, be started twice.
That is what I'm working now, so next patch will fix it. With the last
patch, just test both the services and the things in your session are
started.

> 
> > Future looking we are going to replace the current hard coded services
> > (like gnome-settings-daemon) as libgnomeservice's and have them start up
> > using the dependency code.  At that point as we patch services you will
> > be able to check if the services do indeed start in the right order and
> > even profile to see if there is something we can be doing to get things
> > started faster.
> 
> But none of that is ready yet, right? Just verifying.
> 
yes, it's done for some basic services, as I said, as *.patch files in
libgnomeservice
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>