Bug#600486: Bug#598132: gdm3: Should beep or permit to configure a beep
Samuel Thibault
sthibault at debian.org
Tue Oct 19 14:39:00 UTC 2010
Josselin Mouette, le Tue 19 Oct 2010 16:17:45 +0200, a écrit :
> In this case I don’t understand why you use 2 different GConf keys for
> that effect.
Err, which 2 different GConf keys? I'm just using the
/desktop/gnome/applications/at/beep_enabled
key everywhere.
> You should put as much as possible of the changes in g-s-d,
> and just ship a different default for the greeter session - we can do so
> in the configuration file.
>
> I’d prefer if the beep was emitted by a new g-s-d plugin,
Why doing so? Writing a plugin seems much more involved than just
putting a .desktop file in gdm3, I wonder for which benefit.
> but if done this way we could do with using beep.
Why is this case different from the .desktop file case, concerning using
beep?
> In this case we shouldn’t forget the correct X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase
> so that the beep only happens when everything else is ready.
Ah, I didn't know about that thing. I guess we can move
gdm-simple-greeter.desktop.in to Desktop phase, and the beep task to
Application phase?
Samuel
More information about the pkg-gnome-maintainers
mailing list