[sugar] Fwd: Session Management in 2.24

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

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From: Lucas Rocha <lucasr at gnome.org>
Date: Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:54 PM
Subject: Session Management in 2.24
To: Gnome Release Team <release-team at gnome.org>, GNOME -
Desktop-Dev-List <desktop-devel-list at gnome.org>


Hi all,

 In 2006, Dan Winship presented some ideas[1] about the future of
 session management in GNOME. He wrote the initial code and defined
 this nice architecture which turns gnome-session into a more generic
 session management system and makes it easier to eventually replace
 the current XSMP-based session management with a saner and less
 cryptic D-Bus-based protocol in the future. On June 2007, he made a
 code drop on a branch called new-gnome-session[2] and stopped working
 on that (for various personal reasons).

 Since October 2007, I've been sparsely working on this new code (with
 full support from Dan) on my spare time by filling some gaps, fixing
 bugs, implementing missing features, etc. So, now the code reached a
 functional state and I've just merged the new-gnome-session branch in
 trunk. Vincent Untz and I will be working on making the new code shine
 for 2.24.

 If you want to know the general ideas around the new gnome-session, read:

  http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NewGnomeSession

 Most of the design and features described there are already
 implemented (if not all).

 If you want to know what's still missing and want to help us, read:

  http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/Todo

 The new gnome-session is fully compatible with current session clients
 (GnomeClient and others) and no code changes are required on existing
 apps. However, some simple changes are necessary on some basic
 components that run during the session such as gnome-settings-daemon,
 gnome-panel, nautilus, metacity, gnome-keyring, etc. I have most of
 the patches ready and I'll be filing bugs for each component soon
 (Actually, I've made other necessary changes in some modules during
 the 2.21/2.22 cycle already).

 Big thanks to Dan! This important move would not be possible without
 his support and invaluable efforts.

 There's still a lot to do during this development cycle.
 Testing and patches are more than welcome!

 Cheers!

 --lucasr

 [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-September/msg00084.html
 [2] http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-session/branches/new-gnome-session/
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