Broadcast shutdown message on the dbus?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> At the moment, it is not very easy for KDE and Gnome (or any other
> user application for that matter), to know that a shutdown is in
> progress, and act accordingly.

A shutdown *REQUEST* is outstanding you mean.  Shutdown in progress means we
are switching runlevels...

> One idea to make it easier would be to extend shutdown to broadcast
> the shutdown request not only using wall, but also using dbus.  This
> way, programs could listen on the dbus and act accordingly.
> 
> A simple application could pop up a warning about the system being
> shut down.  Other alternatives are left to the imagination.
> 
> What is your view on this.

Go for it.  Getting KDE and GNOME to actually remember that the X console
exists and is important is just not going to happen.

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  Henrique Holschuh