Enhanced Upstart User Sessions for the Raring desktop

Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.ledkov at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 23 16:02:38 UTC 2012


On 23 November 2012 14:54, Sebastien Bacher <seb128 at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Le 23/11/2012 15:50, Dmitrijs Ledkovs a écrit :
>
>> That means we will have to distinguish the case where we have both
>> autostart desktop file & upstart job file in the upstart-managed session.
>> (e.g. gwibber shipping both).
>> This migration is very similar to how we currently support both upstart
>> jobs and sysvinit scripts, by letting upstart manage both: natively or
>> via-bridge.
>
>
> Hey,
>
> I don't think tha tthe "via-bridge" is needed. Those autostart have
> OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;XFCE;LXDE;... if unity is upstart managed and we
> provide a job for that service we should just drop Unity of the .desktop
> sessions list...

Ok good. I believe currently we wanted to introduce a new session
name, such that this can be tested in parallel - e.g. login into unity
or unityupstart (names are not defined yet)
That this bit is actually easy then and indeed a bridge is not needed.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.



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