Bug#433960: gnome-session: script to warn users of a shutdown/reboot via zenity

[Josselin Mouette]

Le vendredi 20 juillet 2007 à 19:08 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine a écrit :
> Package: gnome-session
> Version: 2.14.3-5
> Severity: wishlist
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> The rough script below could be converted into a "gnome-wall" that is 
> called at the very start of rc0.d and rc6.d, followed by a long sleep, 
> to warn all users of the impeding system interruption.
> 
> Of course, this is a rough hack. 

That's an euphemism. I really don't want to introduce such an ugly hack.
Furthermore, doing it in the shutdown process makes it too late for
users to save their work.

> Ideally, GNOME would simply have a way to catch all wall messages 
> (such as those issued by 'reboot') and to display them via the 
> notification area.

I'm not 100% sure, but it should be feasible with notification-daemon.
Ideally, the shutdown command should send notifications by dbus when it
is available, and notification-daemon should display them.

Cheers,
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