EggSMClient is no good

Nick Schermer nickschermer at gmail.com
Wed Jul 29 08:26:02 CEST 2009


2009/7/29 Brian J. Tarricone <brian at tarricone.org>:
> Hey Nick,
>
> I just noticed that EggSMClient doesn't support SmRestartImmediately, which
> is a bit of a showstopper.
>
> It seems to support it based on GNOME's non-standard .desktop file
> extensions, by looking for an X-GNOME-AutoRestart key.  Obviously we don't
> support this.
>
> I can attempt to whip up a patch for egg_sm_client_set_mode(), but it's
> gonna be kinda a hack.  What do you think?

I have no strong opinion about eggsm at all, so hacks are fine by me.
IMHO we should make it 'work' and not spend more time on the code than
that. It's a temporarily solution (although we will probably stick
with it for a year of 2). So go ahead, hack whatever is needed ;-).

Nick



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