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

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 433960 notification-daemon,bsdutils
thanks

Le samedi 21 juillet 2007 à 16:12 +0300, =?UTF-8?Q? Martin-=C3=89ric?=
Racine a écrit :
> > > 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.
> 
> Could the notification daemon perhaps acquire a feature to listen to
> wall messages and display them, then?  Likewise, this could be used to
> catch attempts to contact the user via deprecated UNIX tools based on
> concepts similar to wall e.g. talk and to display the output via the
> notification area.
> 
> If you feel that this wishlist bug would be more appropriate for
> another package like notification-daemon, zenity or other parts of the
> Galago project, feel free to reassign.

I think this issue is both up to the galago and bsdutils maintainers.
First, a dbus interface should be defined for sending such messages.
Then, wall could call dbus-send when available, and notification-daemon
would have to listen to this interface.

If the bsdutils maintainer disagrees, the solution will imply
notification-daemon (or an intermediate process) using a pseudo-tty only
for this matter, and it sounds quite hackish.

Cheers,
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