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Hi all, |
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I just submitted a number of patches to bug |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14872 |
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Those patches change the way that the displaymanagers (graphical login |
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screens) work. These patches allow for scripts to be executed before and |
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after a session. The main use for this are gpg-agent that is used for kmail, |
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and input method editors such as xcin and kanna. I would like to hear some |
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comments on this work. |
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To make things easy I made two zipfiles available on my website which also |
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contain those ebuilds. The first one: |
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http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv/ebuilds/presession.zip |
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provides the actual ebuilds providing the post/pre session architecture. |
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The second one: |
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http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv/ebuilds/newpg.zip |
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provides an example use for the architecture in the shape of a new version of |
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newpg. Newpg provides the gpg-agent program which is used for gpg support in |
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the new kmail. For that to work gpg-agent needs to be started before kde. |
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This package does that using the architecture. |
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I would like to have comments and suggestions concerning these packages. |
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I am aware that there are no distributions as yet providing this |
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functionality, but I do believe that it is useful and should be provided. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv |