Re: [Tracker] Idea of control autostart of trackerd and tracker-applet in tracker-preferences

["Michael Biebl" <mbiebl gmail com>]

2007/11/12, jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
> On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 11:41 +0800, Halton Huo wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 08:41 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > 2007/11/8, Halton Huo <Halton Huo sun com>:
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > I'm thinking of add a way to control autostart properties of trackerd
> > > > and tracker-applet in tracker-preferences, this will allow user config
> > > > tracker with only one program. Which means user need to start
> > > > gnome-session-properties to enable/disable trackerd and tracker-applet.
> > > >
> > > > Any comments or ideas?
> > >
> > > Hm, I think this would mean duplicated code, so I don't really like this idea.
> > > gnome-session-properties was conceived to have a central place where
> > > to configure this sort of stuff. So if it all, I would simply place a
> > > button in t-p, labelled "Configure Autostart" (or something like
> > > this), which then would open gnome-session-properties.
> > Sounds good for me.
> >
> > Jamie, do you agree.
> > >
>
> um dunno - we are not gnome specific so not sure if thats a good idea

Good point.


> perhaps make it optional if GNOME is defined in the build

Another option would be, to check at runtime for the
gnome-session-properties binary.

Cheers,
Michael

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