Ubuntu
gnome-session package

Merge lp://qastaging/~jamesodhunt/ubuntu/raring/gnome-session/gnome-session-job-emit-desktop-event into lp://qastaging/ubuntu/raring/gnome-session

Proposed by James Hunt on 2013-03-15

Status:	Merged
Merge reported by:	Sebastien Bacher
Merged at revision:	not available
Proposed branch:	lp://qastaging/~jamesodhunt/ubuntu/raring/gnome-session/gnome-session-job-emit-desktop-event
Merge into:	lp://qastaging/ubuntu/raring/gnome-session
Diff against target:	33 lines (+15/-0) 2 files modified debian/changelog (+7/-0) debian/gnome-session.user-session.upstart (+8/-0)
To merge this branch:	bzr merge lp://qastaging/~jamesodhunt/ubuntu/raring/gnome-session/gnome-session-job-emit-desktop-event
Related bugs:	Link a bug report

Reviewer	Review Type	Date Requested	Status
Ubuntu branches		2013-03-15	Pending
Review via email: mp+153558@code.qastaging.launchpad.net

Description of the change

Make gnome-session upstart job emit 'desktop' event.

By providing a level of abstraction, we can encourage users who wish to create their own Upstart jobs to specify:

start on desktop

This is better than 'start on started gnome-session' since:

- it's less typing ;-)
- it will allow other flavours who wish to opt-in and provide an Upstart-managed session to emit the event from whatever upstart job they create to start some core part of their desktop (maybe ksession for KDE, etc).
- it makes users jobs portable between different desktop-environments.

By providing the DESKTOP_SESSION variable, user jobs could potentially change their behaviour based on whichever desktop environment they get started in.