Re: Cancel session shutdown

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

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 ?

I'm not sure what you mean by "implementing D-Bus support" ; D-Bus is 
more a means to an end than an end in itself.

If your goal is to implement session management, then D-Bus isn't used 
for that right now, XSMP is. GNOME could certainly use D-Bus for it 
instead, but at the moment it does not.

I personally think XSMP should be replaced by a "shutdown protocol" on 
D-Bus plus a "startup programs" folder, since XSMP has lots of nasty 
complexity that nobody really understands or uses.

Havoc