Re: [rox-devel] [PATCH] ROX-Session remote commands

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 09:37:43AM -0400, Matthew Weier OPhinney wrote:
> -- Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> wrote
> (on Monday, 16 June 2003, 12:10 PM +0100):
> > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 02:33:20PM +0100, Geoff Youngs wrote:
> > > Just a small patch to allow remote commands to be sent to ROX-Session.
> > 
> > I'm thinking of adding DBUS support to ROX-Session at some point.
> > Probably that will provide a better communications system. At the moment,
> > there's not much point in halt, reboot, logout or suspend since you can do
> > all of them without ROX-Session.
> > 
> > However, if we add confirmation of unsaved data on logout/shutdown then
> > they become useful...
> 
> Another issue with the halt and reboot options is on multi-user
> systems... I know that *I* don't necessarily want the average user being
> able to do either of those things with the central server!

ROX-Session has no special abilities. If a user can shut the system down
with ROX-session, they can do it without too.

> I would be for removing them, or making the display of these items
> optional.

They already shade if no command is set (the default).

> Further question: what are the goals for ROX-Session? Will you be trying
> to set up a way for users to save and load sessions (including window
> locations)? or simply a way to load programs at startup (already
> implemented)?

I wasn't going to do either of those, although other people can send
patches. I just want confirmation of unsaved data on logout...


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