Re: Proposed module: conduit

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:33 PM, John Stowers
<john stowers lists gmail com> wrote:
> If another app calls into conduit using dbus, it will automatically
> start, without the gui. If the user then starts Conduit from the
> accessories menu, the Gui will be launched atop the already running
> service.
>
> Basically I would prefer Conduit did not automatically start with the
> session as it increases login time.
>
> There was originally a technical justification for having Conduit
> running all the time, but since then we have got better about scanning
> for appropriate connected hardware, instead of relying on Conduit
> running all the time to notice when it gets plugged in.
>
> In future there may be additional reasons to have conduit running all
> the time, such as 'always up to date' sync (only our gconf sync uses
> this ATM, IIRC).
>
> In summary however, If I was a distributor, I would not autostart
> conduit at login (yet).

I'm +1 on including conduit for as long as it:

1) does not autostart
2) gets its menu entry moved to System/Preferences for now

It's quite useful when used as a daemon but pretty hard to grasp as
soon as you get to the GUI.

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki