Re: Bug#255515: No mechanism for adding applications to the default session

[Johannes Rohr <j.rohr@gmx.de>]

Am Tue, 29 Jun 2004 11:20:07 +0200 schrieb Josselin Mouette:

> Le mar, 29/06/2004 à 13:06 +0400, Dan Korostelev a écrit :
>> On 2004-06-22 at 14:26 +0200, Kai Weber wrote:
>> > * Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>:
>> > > packages could add files containing stuff for the default session?
>> > Would be useful for gnome-volume-manager, too.
>> For gnome-cups-icon and magicdev too. This is needed.
> 
> I've added gnome-cups-icon and gnome-volume-manager, but I cannot add
> magicdev as long as the package doesn't conflict with g-v-m. If both are
> launched at the same time, I expect problems.

Will new additions to the system-wide default session have an
impact on an existing ~/.gnome2/session? 

I assume they won't as the default session is used only if a personal
session file is unavailable. Means: If you add g-v-m to an existing Gnome
desktop, it will never be executed unless the user launches it manually or
runs the gvm capplet.

In an ideal world, this should be different. I.e. system wide and personal
session settings should be merged just as system wide and personal menus
and gconf settings are. But, well, that's probably an upstream issue and
requires substantial modifications.

Thanks,

Johannes

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