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On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 00:03 +0200, Dan Armak wrote: |
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> ===== Bugs overview (probably missed some): ===== |
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> #89870: long story, summary: .desktop files are installed in different places. |
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> KDE only reads the KDE ones, Gnome only the Gnome ones (and both use a small |
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> common set). |
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This doesn't really fit in the WM/DM issue afaics. The fact just is that |
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the alternative installations roots Gentoo KDE uses aren't dealt with in |
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the eg. the menu config files. |
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> So each DE doesn't benefit from the other's apps (.desktop files aren't just |
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> for menus but also for e.g. services/actions on mimetypes/etc). 'Lightweight' |
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> WMs with a menu are forced to choose one of the above to display. (And if you |
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> merge both, the result is currently very ugly.) |
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The xdg menu spec has sufficient capabilities of dealing with the amount |
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of .desktop files. We just haven't dealt with them because they aren't a |
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real issue yet because of the non-default KDE installation paths on |
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Gentoo. |
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> #53517: xdm, kdm, gdm (don't know about entrance and such) each have their own |
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> set of a lot of configfiles: Xaccess, Xreset, Xservers, Xsession, Xsetup, |
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> Xstartup, Xwilling... Obviously bad. |
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> Today some files are shared / not duplicated (gdm <-> xdm, kdm <-> xdm), but |
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> the work is not complete. It seems gdm only has its own Xsession now, and if |
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> people confirm this I can work on getting rid of all of kdm's separate files |
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> as well. BUT I still need cooperation here because there might be some |
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> features in kdm's files which would need to be merged into the common (xdm?) |
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> ones. |
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GDM has had just its own Xsession for a long time iirc. I think most |
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functionality provided by these other X* files are login manager (xdm?) |
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specific. The one real issue is Xsession. |
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> #26326: unifying scripts that run on X sessions startup/shutdown. A lot of |
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> non-WM-specific stuff, e.g. starting ssh/gpg agents, lives (often duplicated) |
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> in DM-specific or WM-specific scripts. |
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This is the core of the problem, this needs to be fixed |
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> #14872: unifying DM session scripts, handling of ~/.xsession, etc. The bug is |
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> closed but I think some things mentioned there haven't been fixed. |
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This is sort of the same as #26326 . |
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I think the RH approach of using xinitrc.d as a place to unify startup |
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scripts is a workable solution. I'd like the X11 teams input on this |
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however, since the X11 /etc layout and history behind it is largely |
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unknown to me. |
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- foser |
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