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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Automatic shutdown
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2010-03-08 9:04:57
Message-ID: 201003081004.57330.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Saturday 06 of March 2010, Joris Guisson wrote:
> Not to mention that shutdown requires root privileges to run on most
> distros.
>
> I was hoping that there was a org.freedesktop.SessionManager  dbus
> interface. Implemented by both KDE and gnome and any other desktop
> which has a sessionmanager.
>
> Gnome has something like it:
> http://people.gnome.org/~mccann/gnome-session/docs/gnome-session.html
> KDE has it's own version (KWorkSpace::requestShutdown just does a dbus
> call)
>
> Maybe it's time for a standardized interface for this ?

 No, it was about 20 years ago. The XSMP protocol has support for this 
(interact style), it's just nobody actually supports it.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 openSUSE Boosters team, KDE developer
 l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org
 
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