Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Denis Washington <dwashington gmx net>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 15:09 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> > Using gdm is risky as we cannot rely on it running (one could also start
> > a GNOME session from kdm or xdm),
> Abstraction layer?;) Just kidding. You're right.
> 
> > and gnome-session probably means that
> > only session-enabled apps would get to know about the language and
> > locale, or am I wrong?
> IIRC all other apps are executed as explicit (or implicit) children of
> gnome-session (CMIIW). So exporting environment variables in
> gnome-session would affect all its children, whether they are
> session-aware or not.

Also if run from any terminal? I don't know how that should work
technically, but if this is the case, gnome-session would be the natural
place to set the localization-related environment variables.

Cheers,
Denis