Autostart (Was: Third-party sessioning requests)

[Nicolai Haehnle]

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On Saturday 10 January 2004 03:02, Ray Strode wrote:
> > X-KDE-autostart-after: References another autostarted application by
> > the name
> > of its .desktop file (without the .desktop extension)
>
> This probably would be good, but it's not entirely clear to me how this
> would interact with the _DSME_Priority (or whatever this becomes from
> discussion with Lubos in the other thread) which clients are going to set
> when they are started.

Maybe this "start after" could replace a numeric or fixed-role priority 
scheme altogether.

Remember that the runlevel system traditionally uses numeric priorities to 
define the order in which system services start up. Recently, however, 
several individuals/distributions (iirc Gentoo is one of them) have started 
using a system that is based entirely on dependencies, i.e. "Service X 
needs Service Y running before it can be started". After reading some 
discussions concerning this issue, it seems like the only reason why the 
priority-based solution is still so widely spread is inertia.
I do think that this is a valuable lesson that can be applied to autostart 
and session management.

cu,
Nicolai
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