Re: to alarm or not to alarm (was: Re: [Evolution] Completely unload Evolution from memory.)

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> > > > I just wondered (nope, not using alarm normally):
> > > >
> > > > As these processes have to be running for notifying the user, shouldn't
> > > > they be launched on login?
> > > >
> > > > As they are not running on login, the user will not be notified unless
> > > > he actually runs Evolution -- at least for a short time.
> > >
> > > if you start evolution on a GNOME session, when closing the session, the
> > > list of running programs is saved, so the alarm daemon should be started
> > > if it was running when the session was ended.
> >
> > Well, as I said, I am just wondering. I don't use alarms ATM.
> >
> > Neither did I ever save my session when logging out. I only manually
> > added gkrellm to the session to start on login. I don't like
> > automatically recreating all running apps and I even close my apps
> > before logging out...
> I also close all my apps before logging out, but I don't kill the other
> processes, so this saves any daemon/component that is running for the
> next session.

I don't kill any process either. I just never *saved* a session.

That means, alarm notification will not work as expected before starting
Evolution -- unless the user has actually saved a session with
evolution-alarm-notify running.

This is not mentioned anywhere IMHO -- but it should. Or the alarm
daemon has to be added by Evolution.

...guenther


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