On Thu, 03.01.08 20:10, David Zeuthen (davidz@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > Hi, > > After investigating (please read the full report including links to > desktop-devel-list) > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427316 > > I realized what an incredibly poor state session service management is > in and what kind of hoops upstream authors jump through because neither > X11, nor xdg or GNOME has provided them with useful infrastructure. It > looks like KDE has _some_ kind of infrastructure for this. > > There are basically two problems that we've been ignoring and hacking > around for as long as I've used Linux on the desktop [...] I still believe the proper way to fix this is have some kind of babysitter daemon that shares most of its code with the init system. The problems for system startup and service management and for session startup and service management are mostly the same. Both sides would benefit if system and session startup/management would be handled by the same powerful system. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
