2008-05-12 klockan 18:55 skrev Karl Lattimer: > I'm just looking into building gnome-main-menu for fedora 9, I noticed > the lack of an actual exit function callable via the command line, > instead I can call gnome-session-save --kill to log out, but only log > out. > > I looked through the gnome-panel source code to find out how the panel > calls the shutdown/hibernate etc... functions and find out that it is > built into the panel. It is also not available in the devel package as a > method callable by external applications. > > It seems ludicrous to me that in order to build a replacement panel > menu, a completely new implementation of the logout screen must be > created. Is it not possible therefore to expose panel-logout in the > header files along side similar functions e.g. connect to server and > possibly other panel actions? Debian includes a gnome-panel-logout binary to provide the logout dialog as a standalone program. It makes much sense to get this upstream. Look at the patches in the Debian package for gnome-panel [1] (notably the one in experimental; see the .diff.gz [2] available from [3]. mvrgr, Wouter [1] http://packages.debian.org/gnome-panel [2] http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-panel/gnome-panel_2.22.1.3-2.diff.gz [3] http://packages.debian.org/experimental/gnome-panel -- :wq mail uws xs4all nl web http://uwstopia.nl i'm unclean :: a libertine -- placebo
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