Enhanced Upstart User Sessions for the Raring desktop

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 22 November 2012 11:11, James Hunt <james.hunt at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi Robie,
>
> On 22/11/12 10:24, Robie Basak wrote:
>> A minor point, speaking as an uninformed observer.
>>
>>> /etc/xdg/init
>>
>> These files will be Upstart-specific, right? What if XDG want to use
>> /etc/xdg/init in the future? Would /etc/xdg/upstart avoid a potential
>> future namespace collision here?
>>
>> I understand that /etc/xdg/init would be analogous to /etc/init, but do
>> we really own the /etc/xdg namespace like we do /etc? And you're using
>> $HOME/.config/upstart/ so there wouldn't be too much of an inconsistency
>> there.
>>
> Agreed. I've changed the spec to reference /etc/xdg/upstart/ although I wonder
> if we should make this /etc/xdg/upstart/user/ (*) to make it clear the common
> jobs in that directory are only for Upstart running as a non-priv Session Init.
>

Strangely enough, currently on my system I have:
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/xdg-ubuntu:/etc/xdg

There already is $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/autostart and we kind of trying to
make upstart control those. [*] Will there be an xdg-autostart-bridge
for those? And then gradually replace those with upstart jobs on
as-needed basis? Note that looking more at the
/etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop files, I can see they are sensitive to
the type of session being run.

In that case, I would even suggest /etc/xdg/autostart.upstart.

I don't think adding /user/ makes any sense, since all XDG_*
directories are for per-user locations/customisations.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

[*] http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-latest.html