[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 2/3] Add a desktop-integration helper class

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 06/14/2012 02:43 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi
>
> ----- Mensaje original -----
>>> so why having a 1-1 relation with each spice session?
>>
>> We also need to undo the changes at some point in time, iow the
>> desktop-integration objects
>> lifetime needs to be coupled to *something*, and spice-session seems
>> best for this. IE,
>> think usage in python from virt-manager, when the vm viewing window
>> is closed (which does
>> not necessarily end the virt-manager process) we want to restore the
>> settings.
>
> But we can have simultaneous Spice sessions in the same process or in the same desktop session..
>
> Also, changing the user settings looks like the wrong approach. Perhaps something similar to screensaver Inhibit on org.gnome.SessionManager is needed?

Something like screensaver Inhibit on org.gnome.SessionManager would be ideal,
but that won't help us with RHEL-6 (gnome-2), kde / xfce / etc. Also I'm afraid
that the same may apply to the screensaver stuff (inhibit not supported
everywhere).

One possible idea would be the following:
-we add a /usr/libexec/spice-gtk-<arch>/spice-desktop-integration executable,
  which listens on a unix socket under $HOME
-that process controls disabling / enabling automount, screensaver, etc.
-one or more spice-gtk sessions can give it (un)inhibit-automount commands,
  when inhibiting the spice-gtk sessions must keep the unix socket open, closing
  it is an automatic uninhibit.
-this process gets started the first time it is needed, and exits when the
  session dbus goes away

Regards,

Hans