Attachment 45533 Details for Bug 35306 – spec: document the search path for session services

[patch] spec: document the search path for session services

0001-spec-document-the-search-path-for-session-services.patch (text/plain), 1.57 KB, created by Simon McVittie on 2011-04-12 08:32:30 UTC

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Created: 2011-04-12 08:32:30 UTC

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>From a762a8d8e10a5ae4e439ebe8bc13cc4eb152cac0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
>Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:30:24 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] spec: document the search path for session services
>
>Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35306
>---
> doc/dbus-specification.xml |   13 ++++++++++---
> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>index c4fee66..a4e5cf4 100644
>--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>+++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
>@@ -4213,9 +4213,16 @@
>         <sect4>
>           <title></title>
>           <para>
>-            [FIXME specify location of .service files, probably using
>-            DESKTOP_DIRS etc. from basedir specification, though login session
>-            bus is not really desktop-specific]
>+            On Unix systems, the session bus should search for .service files
>+            in <literal>$XDG_DATA_DIRS/dbus-1/services</literal> as defined
>+            by the
>+            <ulink url="http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html">XDG Base Directory Specification</ulink>.
>+            Implementations may also search additional locations, which
>+            should be searched with lower priority than anything in
>+            XDG_DATA_HOME, XDG_DATA_DIRS or their respective defaults;
>+            for example, the reference implementation also
>+            looks in <literal>${datadir}/dbus-1/services</literal> as
>+            set at compile time.
>           </para>
>         </sect4>
>       </sect3>
>-- 
>1.7.4.1
>

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