D-Bus and Mac OS X

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Fri Sep 1 11:10:24 BST 2006


Benjamin Reed wrote:
>The problem is, the only way to manipulate a user's environment at the
>finder level is to edit ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist, and then, it only
>works after you log out and back in.
>
>The "proper" way to handle such things, at least on 10.4, is to use
>launchd.  The way it works is, we would have to add launchd support to
>D-Bus (which means being able to talk to launchd to provision sockets
>for talking to users) and to QtDBus (ask launchd for the socket to use
>to communicate with the session bus).
>
>Unfortunately, that's where my knowledge ends.  :)  Does anyone have
>experience with one or both on OSX and mind helping me out on trying
>to implement this?  Does this seem like the right way to go about
>this?

Isn't there any script that is run during the user login process?

-- 
  Thiago Macieira  -  thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
    PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint:
    E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C  966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-core-devel/attachments/20060901/87c774fb/attachment.sig>


More information about the kde-core-devel mailing list