Re: gnome-session api break

[Ghee Teo <Ghee Teo Sun COM>]

If /etc/xdg/autostart has been defined as a standard interface, it 
should be honoured as
an interface. It is not a matter because GNOME module(s) uses it. There 
may be other
distro making uses of that to do other autostart in their post-install 
scripts. With this
chnages, these apps will no longer work from one release of GNOME to the 
next which
really acceptable from the apps developers' point view.  If our view of 
interfaces are only
for GNOME modules only, we are creating a 'closed world' view and that 
is not good for
GNOME.

I am saying this not because I am using this interface, but really from 
common engineering
sense. So I think the original interface should be honoured :)

-Ghee



Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 10:28 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>  
>
> > The gnome-session 2.13.92 changes the location in which it looks for
> > autostart files from /etc/xdg/autostart (which is the
> > xdg-spec-mandated location)
> > to /usr/share/autostart (which is what kde used for a long time for
> > something similar).
> >
> >    
> it's $prefix/gnome/autostart, to not interfere with KDE.
>
>  
>
> > While we generally agree that datadir is a better location for these files than
> > sysconfdir, simply changing this api this late in the game, and moving away from
> > the xdg spec, is a bad idea. We are a few days away from shipping FC5,
> > and all our packages have been carefully patched to put their autostart
> > files where gnome-session used to look for them, in /etc/xdg/autostart.
> >
> >    
> in GNOME CVS, only gnome-power-manager used this. And it is already
> patched.
>
>  
>
> > IMO, changing this interface this late in the release cycle is not acceptable.
> > If anything, Rodrigo could have made it so that /usr/share/autostart is
> > consulted in addition to /etc/xdg/autostart. But he did not do that, although
> > it was proposed in bug 330397.
> >
> >    
> again, since only 1 module in GNOME CVS uses it, why would we need to
> support the old directory? I can add that code if you want, but I see no
> point in doing it, since no applications use that directory (at least in
> GNOME CVS).
>