Bug#251953: gnome-settings-daemon not in default PATH

[Sebastien Bacher]

"Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org> writes:

>  I'd like to have the opinion of the rest of the GNOME maintainers, if
>  you don't mind.

I don't want to start an endless thread. 

My point is that was not document/warranty saying that calling
settings-daemon is designed to be runned by user and should be in the
path. You've written a script that use something that has changed, but
it's your responsability since you've written the script. We can't
support all users scripts ... 


If you:
- use gnome : no problem, settings-daemon is managed 
- use a window manager/environment that handle settings :
that's the job of this environment (ie: xfce does that).
- launch it by hand: so use the right path ...

I agree we should put a NEWS.Debian entry about this but that's all,
moving the settings-daemon in path is probably a wontfix. I'll still try
to give a shot with upstream but don't expect changes on this side.

BTW I still believe that's an application problem and not a
control-center one. If settings daemon is not running the apps should
perhaps show a warning or something like that.


Cheers,

Sebastien Bacher

PS: you should move the discussion on gtk-gnome if you expect more
advices