Re: Pluggable settings daemon

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

On 15.11.2007 20:12, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> On 15.11.2007 19:29, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > 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:
> [...]
> > 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.
>
> That would make a lot of sense, I think. If you look at the recent
> discussions about integrating the functionality of the MouseTweaks
> module [1] proposed for Gnome 2.22 on this list [2], gdm integration
> looked like a major stumbling block. Being able to share settings
> modules between gdm and g-s-d would solve that issue nicely.
>
> I'll hopefully find some time to look at the code this weekend,
> but could you give a short summary of what the differences between
> the current g-s-d modules and your gdm module(s) are (and what
> needs to be done to convert the current g-s-d modules)?

Now these are real footnotes...

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Mousetweaks/ModuleProposal
[2] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2007-November/msg00029.html