Re: Session Management Proposal

[Ray Strode <halfline hawaii rr com>]

Hi George,

> A common thing would be nice, but really so far there are 2 different
> implementations GDM (only in the CVS version though) and KDM and so I don't
> think it's a huge issue anyway - just implement both so far.  GDM allows
> querying which actions are available and that's really the only thing where
> it differs from KDM.  That's the only difference.
>  
That seems like the simplist solution for now.

> Well, yeah, this is the other difference.  GDM only supports scheduling a
> shutdown/reboot after the session from which it was requested ends.
> Scheduling a shutdown would also be useful in GDM I suppose.  Other then that
> it's then really up to the session manager to figure out what DM is running
> and what are it's capabilities.  And if consolehelper is available it can
> fall back on that is the current gnome-session does (it doesn't use gdm sup
> protocol yet I don't think).
>  
Yea that sounds good to me.

--Ray