RFC: Autostart spec, first draft

[John (J5) Palmieri]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:57 +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:14, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > First draft, your feedback is highly appreciated.
> >
> > Please send all comments to xdg at freedesktop.org
> >
> > See http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-July/007061.html and
> > follow ups for previous discussion.
> 
> I think the autostart on login part is fine,
> 
> Any objections to also adding:
> 
>     Scripts in $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/environment will be sourced, this gives a
>     way for the user and/or admin to influence the environment. 
> 
>     Scripts in lower priority environment directories should be sourced
>     first so scripts in higher priority directories can override the values
>     they specify for environment variables.
> 
>    Scripts will be called with the desktop name as the first parameter
>    (KDE, GNOME, ROX, XFCE) making it possible to set up the environment
>    dependend on the desktop when necessary 
> 
> This would allow setting things like $GPG_AGENT_INFO in a uniform manner?

This can all be done with other scripts already.  If you want it per app
you can set up a wrapper to execute from the desktop file.  No reason to
add this to the spec.

> 
> Regarding the autostart on new media, not sure if this should be in the same 
> spec, or a different one
> 
> > The desktop environment MAY ignore autostart files based on policy set by 
> > the user or system administrator.
> 
> the standard should specify how to set this policy IMO

You need a common configuration system for that first.

> What kind of possibilities do we want here:
> - 1 global setting or more granular (per media-type, dependend on 
> CD-label, ...)

Getting too complicated.

> - maybe an option to only run it if a signature by an approved (gpg)key is 
> present?

This might be nice actually.  The script itself would have to be signed.
I would turn it on by default in fedora if we had this.

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>