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





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