[Xfce 4.12] Roadmap and Features

Raphael Groner raphgro at web.de
Mon May 7 12:27:24 CEST 2012


> Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 10:24:37 +0200
> From: Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com>
> To: xfce4-dev at xfce.org
> Subject: Re: [Xfce 4.12] Roadmap and Features
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> Am Montag, den 07.05.2012, 08:51 +0200 schrieb Landry Breuil:
> 
> > Same thing can be said the other way round ;) systemd will _never_
> > work on some systems,
> 
> such as?
> 
> > so we''ll have to keep it optional too. Probably making a
> > (mandatory ?) configure option selecting one of both (or none, since
> > there's the sudo fallback) would make sense.
> 
> +1
> 

Systemd seems to become default for (mostly) all big mainstream
distributions. The goal is systemd, no matter. I don't think that a
configuration option is needed. If there's no systemd on the target
system, xfce4-session should fall back to sudo (or better gksu or
such), automatically.

Can we continue this discussion in the dedicated bug [1]? I guess
this bug was opened cause of this discussion topic.

[1] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8729

-Raphael


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