Re: Third-party sessioning requests [was Re: Session Management Proposal]
- From: Ray Strode <halfline hawaii rr com>
- To: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
- Cc: xdg-list freedesktop org, gnome-hackers gnome org, hp redhat com, mark skynet ie, ettrich kde org, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi kde org>, Lubos Lunak <l lunak suse cz>, Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
- Subject: Re: Third-party sessioning requests [was Re: Session Management Proposal]
- Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 02:15:56 -1000
Bill Haneman wrote:
Frederic was on-the-mark here; most/all desktops currently use some
mechanism for
specifying 'startup programs' (outside of the existing 'sessioning'
mechanism). The
full-blown sessioning/save-yourself protocol of course requires client
interaction, etc. but
this request isn't about saving state, it's just about adding a client
to the exec list.
I am saying that we need IMO a standard mechanism for doing this
(i.e. what gnome does with session-manual and KDE does with
autostart) just as we are working on a standard sessioning mechanism.
Okay so would adding $XDG_DATA_HOME/autostart and
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/autostart to the DSME
be sufficient and okay with everyone? (Note those prefixes come from
http://freedesktop.org/Standards/basedir-spec)
So if something needed to be started automatically then its desktop file
could be
dropped into any of the above autostart directories and it would be
started automatically.
We're probably going to have to standardize some new .desktop keys for
triaging
load order.
--Ray
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