At the moment, it is not very easy for KDE and Gnome (or any other user application for that matter), to know that a shutdown is in progress, and act accordingly.
One idea to make it easier would be to extend shutdown to broadcast the shutdown request not only using wall, but also using dbus. This way, programs could listen on the dbus and act accordingly. A simple application could pop up a warning about the system being shut down. Other alternatives are left to the imagination. What is your view on this. The background for this is a project where client machines can be turned off from remote, and the user currently logged in should get a warning. Most users do not have any consoles, and the wall messages are thus not visible to them. Something GUI like is needed, and a simple dbus listener would work. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
