Re: MOTD in g-s-d

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 15.11.2007 14:35, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> Looking at my bugs in bugzilla, I found this patch I wrote long time
> ago:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159604
>
> This patch has been in the openSUSE package for all this time, and it
> works great. Since it doesn't seem to fit well in gnome-session, what do
> you think about having this as a module in g-s-d?
>
> It works in a way that, if nothing is in the /etc/motd file, it doesn't
> show anything, and if it's changed, the user is notified immediately
> with a notification bubble.
>
> What do you think?

Haven't looked at the patch, but I think the comments on the bug
are spot on: Why would you want to put a once-at-login activity
into a long-running daemon? I don't see much of a difference between
gnome-session and g-s-d in that respect.

We have an autostart mechanism, and it should be trivial to do
with zenity, for example.

Jens