Re: Bonobo cleanup

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 11:36, Brian Cameron wrote:
> There are a number of bonobo components that are not in libexec, and
> this causes some problems for the Sun release of Gnome.  Sun has strict
> rules about what should be placed in /bin, and since bonobo components
> aren't intended to be executed by the user, we would like to move them
> to libexec.  I've been talking with Michael Meeks about this issue and
> he agrees that this cleanup is a good idea.  We are happy to do the
> work to make this change.

[ i've been wanting this to happen for some time now, actually ]

> gnome-settings-daemon is perhaps not a good idea to change to libexec,
> though.  Even though it is a bonobo component, gnome-session starts it
> in the default session file.  However, the others should definately
> be moved.

it's not in the default session any more in versions > 2.0.0

 - jacob