Re: [Gaim-devel] tray is working - but session management is not

[Robert M. <rob...@de...>]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:36:40PM +0000, Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote:
> > this isn't a problem, its a feature request. 
> OK. I will consider this as such. Actually, since this feature presented
> earlier I thought about it as a problem:)

I have this on my todo list, I have some fragments of code and ideas
that will make it happen at some point.

> > when gnome2 came out, the applet api changed to require applets very tightly 
> I know it. I've just moved my applet to gnome2 and see all the
> difference...:)

It's actually always been a pretty invasive part of the codebase,
requiring a totally different binary, different main loop, different
command line options, and a big buttload of evil ifdefs. When GNOME2 and
GTK2 came along I advocated branching a gtk1-stable maintainance
tree, and junking all the applet and GNOME stuff from HEAD. After
volunteering to do all that deletion and work on the docklet, that's
roughly what happened.

> > as part of the core functionality, but it will also be agnostic to the 
> > environment.
> Cool! How do you expect it to be agnostic and work in GNOME 2
> environment? With my humble knowledge, this seems impossible...

It's actually pretty simple - both gnome-session and KDE's session
manager (kdeinit?) just use the XSM stuff that's specced out in X11R6,
so it's all good standard fun. I think GNOME adds an extension for an
app to provide an icon for a more interactive session management
experience, but the bulk of it is totally standardised.

> Thanks for the comment.

I agree with you that Gaim should automatically register if a session
manager is present, and present the user with a preference like
'Restart Gaim at logon' rather than the user having to do anything
complex like frux with session properties.

> -- 
> Sergey

Regards,
Rob
Gaim's freedesktop.org compliance officer =)