[systemd-devel] Standardizing names for graphical session units

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Jóhann,

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson [2016-07-06 16:22 +0000]:
> It's more about people will be have hard time distinguish between two or
> more type units with the same name but serve two different purposes.

I was thinking graphical.target would be nicely symmetrical to the
system-level one, but there's the confusion potential, yes. So if we
call the "real" sessions like gnome-session.target, then IMHO that
generic "alias" target should have the same form;
graphical-session.target would be reasonable.

> One way to solve them is with type target units as you proposed (
> user-graphical.target could serve that purpose ) but back in the day Lennart
> was against introducing generic type targets like webserver.target,
> database.target etc

Oh, I wasn't aware of this. I guess we'll let him have the last word
about that then? :-)

I'll go ahead and create a PR with the unit and a manpage, using
graphical-session.target for now. Then the name bikeshedding can be
continued there.

BTW, I updated http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/tmp/session.sh to
have a kde.target as well, to demonstrate that this works with two
independent sessions.

Thanks everyone for their input!

Martin

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