Bug 8101

Summary:	D-Bus session daemon must be auto-startable by libdbus
Product:	dbus	Reporter:	Thiago Macieira <thiago>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Thiago Macieira <thiago>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	John (J5) Palmieri <johnp>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	highest
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Patch for libdbus-1 to auto-start the daemon Patch for dbus-launch to allow auto-starting of the daemon

Description Thiago Macieira 2006-09-01 12:22:05 UTC

Many applications require a D-Bus session daemon to be running. While we may 
expect that most recent distributions will include starting of the session 
daemon in the X11 session scripts, we cannot rely on that behaviour. First and 
foremost, there are old distributions. Second, MacOS X and Windows don't have 
such a thing as a session script (Windows has services, MacOS X has launchd).

This is a must-have feature for D-Bus 1.0, since KDE 4.0 will require it.

Comment 1 John (J5) Palmieri 2006-09-01 12:58:41 UTC

I was really hopping to get all the bugs fixed and have an RC by the end of next
week.  This is a feature, and one that can go in post 1.0 in my opinion.  We
talked about this before but no one has done the patches and I can't justify
blocking indefinitely on features.

Comment 2 John (J5) Palmieri 2006-09-01 14:47:20 UTC

Taking off the tracker but if you can get a patch in will evaluate for
inclution.  Initial patch is needed and be approved as the correct approch
before I do an RC release but we can tweek it a bit after.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2006-09-01 15:09:04 UTC

I googled up my mail on how I imagined this working, for reference if anyone 
hacks on it:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dbus/2006-February/004156.html

Comment 4 Thiago Macieira 2006-09-01 16:11:09 UTC

The way Havoc described it sounds like the approach I'd like to see. I'll try 
to come up with a patch for the root window, like we had discussed.

But, in case I can't, I'll take the DCOP code that does the same, but stores 
the address in a file in the user's home directory (it's per host and per 
display).

Comment 5 Thiago Macieira 2006-09-01 16:11:26 UTC

Reassign to me.

Comment 6 Thiago Macieira 2006-09-15 09:05:31 UTC

Created attachment 6991 [details] [review]
Patch for libdbus-1 to auto-start the daemon

Comment 7 Thiago Macieira 2006-09-15 09:06:00 UTC

Created attachment 6992 [details] [review]
Patch for dbus-launch to allow auto-starting of the daemon

Comment 8 John (J5) Palmieri 2006-10-13 12:32:54 UTC

This has been added to CVS

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