[Decibel] Decibel and the Telepathy Spec - into the future...

[George Goldberg]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:33 AM, George Goldberg
<grundleborg at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Good point. This is definitely undesirable.
>
> /me heads off to investigate whether there is an already-existing
> solution to this.

Ok, so I've done a bit of research into this problem and it seems that
its been identified in the telepathy SPEC [1]. The solution that is
suggested there makes a lot of sense to me. Basically, the Account
Manager process should not install itself as a DBus autostart service,
but instead the desktop environment should take care of starting the
appropriate Account Manager process when a user logs on. There could
probably even be a KCM to allow configuration of this in the case that
a user has multiple Account Manager implementations installed on the
same computer.

Opinions?


George

[1] http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/spec.html#org.freedesktop.Telepathy.AccountManager

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George Goldberg