Re: Faster automatic shutdown

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:05, seth vidal wrote:
> > 
> > I've started logging debug output via syslog, and experimenting with the
> > code to try and understand what's going on.  I notice Havoc suggests
> > that ORBit2 should allow testing when all clients are gone for immediate
> > shutdown, but he hasn't got around to coding it.  Any thoughts on
> > exploring that route and getting this fixed?
> > 
> > If I start hacking I guess I should work on the latest 2.4.0.1 release
> > or CVS version, but hopefully I can also apply the fixes to these demo
> > machines running the current 2.2.0-1.ximian.6.7 release from XD2 on
> > RH9...
> > 
> 
> If you're interested in hacking on gconf please look at the
> gnome-deployment-list and/or talk to havoc pennington about what changes
> need to be made to gconf to make it work better in networked
> environments.

I put some notes at http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/plans.html

See also bugzilla, specifically Mark's patch to use fewer files in the
XML backend, and Kristian's patch to add an LDAP backend.

We finally seem to be getting critical mass with many people seeing the
gconf stuff as top of the priority queue, so it's a good time to get
involved.

Havoc