Enhanced Upstart User Sessions for the Raring desktop

[James Hunt]

Here is the draft plan for 'Enhanced Upstart User Sessions' ([1]), which will be
used to supervise desktop sessions in Ubuntu:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/RaringUpstartUserSessions

= Summary =

Allow Upstart to run as a non-privileged user to supervise a session in an
event-based manner.

This brings many advantages including:

- more dynamic and efficient session startup (desktop services only get started
*when required*).
- reliable session shutdown.
- automatic job output logging.
- more efficient use of system resources (helping to maximise battery life for
example).

Comments Welcome. If you would like to get involved in this project, please let
me know.

Kind regards,

James.

[1] -
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-r-upstart-user-session-enhancements
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