Libxfce4ui api review

Ali Abdallah aliov at xfce.org
Tue Jul 7 15:39:12 CEST 2009


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>
> http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/EggSMClient
>
> EggSMClient itself is pretty well done and even has non-unix support 
> (not that that's entirely useful for the Xfce core desktop).  As much 
> as I don't want to create a new libnetk, it might make sense to base 
> work on our session client on EggSMClient.  Or maybe just import it 
> as-is. Or maybe even just bite the bullet and copy the sources into 
> the core Xfce apps that use it, and don't have a session client at 
> all.  That way we could just wait for gtk to have one.
>
> Of course, there's even still a bit of controversy around EggSMClient, 
> and around session management on the X desktop in general.  I'm 
> strongly considering suggesting we just punt on the session client 
> problem until 4.10, or later, even.

Meanwhile, are we going to keep using libxfcegui4 for the session-client 
stuff, or there will be a GObject port of session- client to libxfce4ui? 
i remember there were discussion about that.

>
>     -brian
Cheers,
Ali.
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