Pluggable settings daemon

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi,

During the work on the GDM rewrite for 2.22 it became clear that we
needed to run some kind of settings daemon in the greeter/login-window
session.  At first I tried to use gnome-settings-daemon directly but
this was problematic for a few reasons, including:

 * The current settings daemon is only modular at the gobject level
[1].  It is all or nothing.  And it isn't clear that we want to have
all of these objects (eg. keybindings and typing break) loaded at the
login window.
 * At least to some people, the idea of GDM depending on
gnome-control-center may be undesirable.


So, I decided to create a pluggable settings daemon for GDM [2].  And
then converted the gnome-settings-daemon's xsettings stuff into a
plugin for it [3] since that was the only part that I needed right
away.

Do you think it makes sense to use this for both GDM and
gnome-control-center?  Perhaps each session can simply specify which
plugins should be loaded.  Where GDM will likely be a subset of a full
GNOME session.

Thoughts?

Jon

[1] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-control-center/trunk/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon.c?view=markup
[2] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gdm/trunk/gui/settings-daemon/
[3] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gdm/trunk/gui/settings-daemon/plugins/xsettings/