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From: Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Request for comments/testers
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 13:23:39
Message-Id: 200304091523.37574.gentoo-user@devrieze.net
1 Hi all,
2
3 I just submitted a number of patches to bug
4 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14872
5
6 Those patches change the way that the displaymanagers (graphical login
7 screens) work. These patches allow for scripts to be executed before and
8 after a session. The main use for this are gpg-agent that is used for kmail,
9 and input method editors such as xcin and kanna. I would like to hear some
10 comments on this work.
11
12 To make things easy I made two zipfiles available on my website which also
13 contain those ebuilds. The first one:
14 http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv/ebuilds/presession.zip
15 provides the actual ebuilds providing the post/pre session architecture.
16
17 The second one:
18 http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv/ebuilds/newpg.zip
19 provides an example use for the architecture in the shape of a new version of
20 newpg. Newpg provides the gpg-agent program which is used for gpg support in
21 the new kmail. For that to work gpg-agent needs to be started before kde.
22 This package does that using the architecture.
23
24 I would like to have comments and suggestions concerning these packages.
25
26 I am aware that there are no distributions as yet providing this
27 functionality, but I do believe that it is useful and should be provided.
28
29 Paul
30
31 --
32 Paul de Vrieze
33 Researcher
34 Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl
35 Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for comments/testers Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Request for comments/testers Norberto BENSA <nbensa@×××.net>