Dbus daemon

Kalle Vahlman kalle.vahlman at gmail.com
Thu Mar 9 05:20:48 PST 2006


Note that I'm not commenting on the user bus at all, not even a bit.
Nope, not me.

On 3/9/06, Robert McQueen <robert.mcqueen at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> It's already been discussed multiple times on the list and apparently a
> user bus is too confusing or not really useful unless you make it a user
> bus shared across a network cluster. I don't agree, and I think that the
> consequence of this stance will be a proliferation of hacks like the one
> I just sketched out (not to mention even grosser hacks like Ubuntu's
> ACPI scripts grepping the environment of the user's processes in /proc
> to find their session bus to tell their screensaver to lock).

This definitely sounds like stuff that should be conveyed through the
system bus, doesn't it?

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