On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 17:39 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 16:47, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > D-BUS could certainly be used to fix it, yes. You have to write two > > pieces, one piece runs systemwide and forwards wall messages over D-BUS; > > one piece runs in the user session and displays any such messages. > > ...which sounds like yet-another-daemon (or two) ... like we didn't have > enough of 'em already :-/ > > Hmm.. dbus-0.21 changelog says "implement "auto activation" flag on > messages, so the destination service can be launched automatically" > which, if it means what I think, is exactly what I was hoping for: the > ability to register a program for given type of messages which then do > stuff with the information received from the bus. So you don't need a > separate user daemon for each and every thing that you might want to > communicate across dbus - or did I completely misunderstand that? > That doesn't avoid the daemon in this case, but nothing says this has to be a separate daemon. The feature could be packed into gnome-settings- daemon, gnome-panel, gnome-session, or any other existing process. The same is true of most of the desktop daemons; it's just a question of modularity vs. performance. Havoc -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list