Re: Gnome Session Services Framework

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 18:06 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:50 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:33 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri 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?)
> > >
> > --enable-services
> > 
> > Also, it would be great if you could test --disable-services to come
> > back to the old gnome-session, and see if the patch breaks anything.
> > 
> > >  and
> > > compile libgnomeservice from CVS.
> > > 
> > and apply the patches (*.patch) that are in libgnomeservice CVS. That
> > will make some services (nautilus, gnome-volume-manager, metacity,
> > panel) use the new infrastructure.
> 
> I'm not so concerned about this stuff right this second.  We are pushing
> the drop in service file wrapper stuff for 2.12 so that is where I would
> spend my testing energies.
> 
> The service framework itself will need massive hammering on before I
> feel we can even propose it but that is the next stage of our dastardly
> plan.
> 
> If we can get things running where session runs fine with the new code
> and service startup using the wrapper runs great then at that point we
> can start messing with framework itself, replacing things service by
> service until we have everything running under the framework. 
> 
ok, here are some instructions for people willing to test it:

http://blogs.gnome.org/view/rodrigo/2005/07/11/0
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>