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



Le mar, 29/06/2004 à 22:32 +0200, Johannes Rohr a écrit :
> > 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.

I've just uploaded 2.6.2-1 which now falls back to magicdev when g-v-m
is not installed.

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

No.

> 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.

Exactly.

> 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.

In an ideal world, the session would be entirely handled by gconf, which
would permit such tricks. But I really don't feel like implementing
this.
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