Phuah Yee Keat wrote: > Ibukun Olumuyiwa wrote: > >> Does GDM use the same .desktop files that KDM uses? If so then perhaps >> this is something that can be standardized upon. The lack of a standard >> way of storing sessions is the reason why this feature isn't there in >> the first place. Although, ideally, I would still prefer a scenario in >> which Entrance could automatically determine how sessions are stored on >> any one system and build its config accordingly. > > > The latest GDM comes with support for the .desktop file types. And as Mr > Morten suggested with what we do with Entrance, GDM does not comes with > its own set of .desktop files and rely on the individual WM to provide > their own. > > On Mandrake, another (or two) program are run to generate GDM > configurations, namely /usr/sbin/chksession and /usr/sbin/fndSession, > which are both in the mandrake_desk rpm and not in GDM nor the WM's rpms. >
Oh that's great then...this would be what we want to do! As at the last time I checked neither of the major display managers had standardized on session management, but it seems that they're moving in that direction now. I'm definitely willing to move forward with this approach. Was there some discussion about some standard routine for parsing .desktop files in ecore_config or something like that? That's probably the right way to go about this, since afaik .desktop files are used for many things other than window manager sessions. Could be very useful for helping integrate E17 with Gnome & KDE. -- Ibukun Olumuyiwa http://xcomputerman.com "I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved." ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
