Re: gnome-control-center 2.22 proposals

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 15:29 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> > Also if run from any terminal?
> Do you mean gnome-terminal? gnome-terminal itself is executed by
> gnome-panel which is executed by the gnome-session. But if you allow
> other, non-session, apps to be executed on your X display (for
> example, using xhost command) - yes, those apps would be totally
> unaware of your settings. But that is a real bad case which you cannot
> cover 100% (at least I do not know any low level X machinery for it).
> 
> > I don't know how that should work
> > technically, but if this is the case, gnome-session would be the natural
> > place to set the localization-related environment variables.
> Do we have any gnome-session guy on this list? At least to comment
> whether I am right or not.
> 
AFAIK you are right, but then we won't be covering apps (at least GTK
apps) being started in a different way, so I would say, if possible, we
need a better way to signal every (GTK) app on the desktop.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>