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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:51:34AM +0000, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Le 08.09.2005 12:07:04, Flavien Bridault a écrit :
> Le 08.09.2005 11:24:32, Arwed von Merkatz a écrit :
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:22:57PM -0500, Robin Cook wrote:
> > > Are there any problems with moving Gnome 2.12.0 and support spells
> > into
> > > test (ie hal, cairo, etc.?)
> > >
> > > If I don't hear anything I will start moving it into test tomorrow.
> > 
> > I just checked the cairo 1.0 dependees, looks quite good so far. The
> > one
> > broken spell is waimea cvs version, that option should probably be
> > disabled until waimea development picks up again.
> > mozillas cairo svg engine needs testing with cairo 1.0, would be nice
> > if
> > someone with a faster box than mine could try if that works and report
> > back. If it doesn't work we'll have to disable the option until they
> > updated their code.
> > Everything else works fine with cairo 1.0, but note that you should
> > also
> > integrate libsvg, libsvg-cairo and xsvg to test when you pull cairo to
> > test.
> > Does anyone know of any problems with the new hal and test grimoire?
> > 
> I believe current pmount spell will be break (0.8) but the last version  
> (0.9+) will be fine with hal 0.5. :-) I will update it as soon at it is  
> in test.

I already updated that in devel :)

> About that, totem should be updated too, I don't know if you planned it  
> Arwed ? I also updated Rhythmbox to 0.9 in devel, you can then  
> integrate it in test as soon as totem 1.2.0 update is done (totem is  
> now required for rhythmbox)

totem in devel is at 1.2.0 which works fine, rhythmbox 0.9 on the other
hand breaks if you choose dbus instead of libbonobo (doesn't like dbus
0.35).

> Gnome-volume-manager in 2.10 used to not work well (no automount,  
> digital camera detection doesn't work), I don't know if you worked on  
> the new one, Robin ? I already look at it with 1.2.2 in august (enabled  
> some options in hal, dbus, etc...), I got automount working using  
> fstab-sync, but I failed on digital cameras. Since there are major  
> changes in the new version, I prefered to wait this release. Pmount can  
> be used instead as fstab-sync afaik. Anyway, this should not delay the  
> gnome 2.12 update if you didn't get it but know that I can take care of  
> that this week-end if you don't have the time to work on that.
> 
> In the same time, I noticed that we can launch gnome via dbus-launch. I  
> did that to try rhythmbox with dbus support and I also suspect this is  
> needed to get gvm working. Here is the patch :
> 
> --- /etc/gdm/Xsession.old       2005-09-08 11:53:07.000000000 +0200
> +++ /etc/gdm/Xsession   2005-09-08 11:56:13.000000000 +0200
> @@ -234,6 +234,14 @@
> 
>   echo "$0: Setup done, will execute: $command"
> 
> +# add dbus-launch if found
> +dbuslaunch="`gdmwhich dbus-launch`"
> +if [ -n "$dbuslaunch" ] && [ -x "$dbuslaunch" ]; then
> +    command="$dbuslaunch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session $command"
> +elif [ -z "$dbuslaunch" ] ; then
> +    echo "$0: dbus-launch not found!"
> +fi
> +
> +
>   eval exec $command
> 
>   echo "$0: Executing $command failed, will run xterm"
> 
> 
> Don't you think it should be good to add it ? Of course that will  
> launch all WM sessions, not only gnome, with dbus-launch, so do you  
> know if that might hurt with some WM ?
 
Doesn't gnome-session take care of that? xfce starts a session dbus
automatically.

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