Re: Cancel session shutdown

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 17:37 +0200, Xavier Claessens wrote:
> On dim, 2006-08-06 at 09:55 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > Xavier Claessens wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm implementing D-Bus support in xchat/xchat-gnome and here is
> > > something I want to do:
> > > 
> > > When the X session is closing and xchat has DCC transfers running I want
> > > to be notified and in some cases cancel the session shutdown.
> > > 
> > > I'm sure that's some kind of thing possible with some D-Bus
> > > methods/signals but I can't find anywhere documentation about that...
> > > Can someone point me the good way for such things ?
> > > 
> > 
> > Right now you have to do this with XSMP, gnome-session doesn't have a 
> > D-Bus protocol for it.
> > 
> > Havoc
> 
> Thanks ! Is there no protocol yet, or is it a reason to not use D-Bus ?

One really good reason I can think of is that
D-Bus can't yet handle remote X applications.
It would kind of suck for those not to be able
to interact with the session manager.

--
Shaun