Third-party sessioning requests [was Re: Session Management Proposal]

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Hi Ray/All:


One significant issue that we (GNOME Accessibility Team) have had so far is
the lack of a clean way to add a 'startup client' from an external app, i.e.
a means of requesting that a not-yet-running client be added to subsequent
sessions.  This is important for bootstrapping of accessibility support; since
assistive technologies are clients which are essential to a user's session, 
it's difficult or impossible for end-users to carry out the normal 
"invoke and save session" procedure for configuring a desktop.

What mechanism do you recommend for doing this?  I certainly think that
whatever we propose ought to work across desktops (at the moment we are 
relying one gnome-session to do this, with some at-specific hacks, but
this is not a very extensible solution).

(What I am asking for is a standard, supported equivalent to 
adding a line to the ~/.gnome2/session-manual file.)

- Bill


Ray Strode wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Attached is the latest version of the DSME. As always,
> improvements appreciated.
> 
> It is also available as HTML here:
> 
> http://www.grokthecruft.org/dsme/
> 
> If there are no major concerns with this after 2 weeks,
> then I'd like to put it up on freedesktop.org.  That
> should give those on vacation for the holidays time to
> look it over and make comments or suggestions if
> required.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --Ray

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Bill Haneman 
Gnome Accessibility Project
Sun Microsystems Ireland