Re: MOTD in g-s-d

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 17:02 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> On jeu, 2007-11-15 at 14:35 +0100, 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?
> 
> FWIW, I wrote a small program doing this which you can add to the
> autostart list. It's called motdoux, but I don't think I ever published
> it (it's nearly one year old). I guess I should put the code
> somewhere... (well, it's so small that anybody can recode it in one
> hour...)
> 
if you publish it somewhere, we can have a look :-) Although I guess it
would do what the gnome-session patch does, without the monitoring of
the file, but in any case, I'd like to have a look, maybe it's got
something interesting to put on the gnome-settings-console module :-)
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>