Re: GNOME Showstopper Review

Patryk Zawadzki <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.desktop,gmane.comp.gnome.bugsquad
Message-ID <[email protected]>
2009/6/19 Josselin Mouette <[email protected]>:
> Le jeudi 18 juin 2009 à 17:08 -0400, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
>> ================================================
>> > GNOME-SESSION
>> > ================================================
>> > Exits when the system D-Bus daemon restarts
>> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583345
>> > Patch available.
>>
>> How is this a blocker ? I know that debian thinks it is a good idea to
>> restart the bus, but everybody else pretty much agrees it is crazy to
>> support that...
> I have yet to see a good reason to treat D-Bus differently from other
> daemons. It’s not as if it was complicated to reconnect to the daemon
> when it is restarted.

The moment the bus disappears you lose all the clients. It's easy to
get into an inconsistent state or lock yourself to a defunct desktop
where nothing works and you are not able to log out.

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki
_______________________________________________
desktop-devel-list mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.