auto activation default

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 23:56 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Should auto activation be the default for method calls? It seems like it
> would be a lot more convenient, since you'd never have to explicitly
> activate anything. It would make most services have race-free "respawn
> after crash" behavior, which is probably right, though of course it can
> be scary if something is crashing on startup. We can deal with that
> separately, rate-limit the respawns or something, that's what gnome-
> session does.
> 
> Havoc

I'm all for this.  In theory an application should never have to know if
a service is active.  When the app sends a message it is assuming that
message will be received and processed.

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John (J5) Palmieri
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Red Hat, Inc.
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