ConsoleKit 0.2.4

[Michael Biebl]

2008/1/24, Matthias Clasen <matthias.clasen at gmail.com>:
> On Jan 23, 2008 9:05 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I still see no reason why this should be put into CK. Wasn't CK about
> > tracking user sessions and seats? Imo this functionality doesn't
> > belong into CK.
> >
>
> One reason is that you want to use knowledge about sessions and logged
> in users when deciding how to respond to a reboot request, e.g. don't
> allow the reboot right away when there are multiple active sessions
> (well, maybe allow it anyway if all the other sessions are xdmcp
> sessions). This information already lives in ConsoleKit, so
> it seems like a good place to handle the reboot request.
>

Well, CK was conceived to provide this kind of information. So e.g.
HAL can easily query them before executing the shutdown request.
There is no good reason why the reboot/stop functionality has to be
put into CK. It only violates the layer boundaries for no good reason.

Cheers,
Michael


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