xfce-session

[Benedikt Meurer]

> Hello,

Hello Marcel,

> Sorry if it has been asked before, but I was wondering if there is some
> expectation about when xfce-session will be considered stable.

My current plan is to finish xfce4-session 1.0 sometime around Feb 2004.

> I'm making packages for Mandrake, and I'm wondering if I should include
> xfce-session or not. I can say it works for me though. The next Mandrake
> version will come out around April next year, does that sound reasonable?

xfce4-session is quite usable so far and it does basic session 
management (atleast everything the normal users expects a session to 
do), but there are some open issues I'm working on. Due to lack of time, 
this will take some time, so the best expectation I can do for now is: 
xfce4-session will be ready with XFce 4.2 ;-)

> Also, there is a patch made by Götz Waschk, where it doesn't use sudo for
> shutdown/reboot/halt, but directly as a user, and calls /usr/bin/reboot
> instead of /sbin/reboot. In Mandrake there are wrappers in /usr/bin for this.
> I do not know if other distro's also have that.
> I include the patch for your interest.

The problem here is, that nearly every Linux distro has its own way of 
allowing users to shutdown the system and every Unix system has another 
way as well. Therefore I'll provide a generic way with plain 
xfce4-session and it'll up to the packager to patch it for the given 
system.

> Marcel Pol

regards,
Benedikt

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