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[Flavien Bridault <f.bridault AT fra.net>]

Le 08.09.2005 13:01:49, Arwed von Merkatz a écrit :
> 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 :)
Good, thanks :-)

> > 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).
Maybe we can support only libbonobo until it compiles with dbus ? I  
think we can expect a patch or a new release soon...

> > 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.
No it doesn't afaik. I just made the test, I didn't find any dbus  
--session process launched after gnome has launched... Or maybe I  
forgot something ?