[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#640082: Bug#640082: Please start xfce4-notifyd via the session manager

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On ven., 2011-09-02 at 04:57 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
> We have been discussing that on IRC for a while, and we came to the
> conclusion, that it should be up to the individual desktop environment
> to depend on its notification system of choice.
> The notification daemons should no longer be started via dbus activation
> and instead by the session manager, so we have a defined and reliabe
> behaviour. 

I have to admit I'm still puzzled by that. Back in time, it seemed like
seamless activation through dbus was the way to go and that autostarting
was bad.

I'm not completely against the change (though it's really upstream call)
but what do we lose in the transition?

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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