[Frugalware-devel] [RFC] start fun by default?

[Gabriel C]

Miklos Vajna wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:34:30PM +0100, Gabriel C <crazy at frugalware.org> wrote:
>> 1) Allow the service to be started from 'fun' itself.
>>    Like we do for gfpm  which auto detects kde,gk{su} or sudo , then we easy can start the 
>>    service as 'user'.
>>
>> [*] At the moment you get this when the daemon is not running:
>>
>> - fun
>> ERROR: The name org.frugalware.FWUpdateNotifier was not provided by any .service files
>>
>> ** ERROR **: Failed to connect to the fun daemon
>>
>> aborting...
>> Trace/breakpoint trap
>>
>> Which is bad isn't it ?
> 
> what about something like a messagebox asing "fund is not running, do
> you want to start it now?"
> 
> fun already has support for starting a graphical application using
> {g,k,}su{do,} - ie it can already start gfpm.
> 

Well it should detect if the demon is running and ask you what you want to do.

>> 2) Add some option to fun to make it shut up * permanently * if someone does not want it
>>  ( probably it could be done with autostart / desktop files and some config file also ) 
>>   until 'someone' re-enable it :P
> 
> right. disabling fund is not a problem, it can be done using service
> fund del. about disabling fun: you enabled knemo for kde by default
> iirc. i disabled it once and it was never appeared again. so if you
> enable it like knemo, it should not be a problem :)

Not possible that way with fun it isn't a native kde applet it doesn't know anything about
kde internals. With kde applets you can tell 'stfu I do not want you to start next time' , click
a check box and that is :P

For that a kfun is needed but doing it for kde3 is a waste of time , probably some plasmoid for
kde4 will be an idea but heh back to what we have now.

Also I think we can do that with the autostart feature all 3 major desktops supports just some kind
global config file with defaults is needed and some kind ~/.fun/config for the user options then.

> 
>> I like the idea but really fun need some fixing for doing that and is
>> to late for 0.8 I think.
> 
> it was a general question, if it can be done before 0.8 then that's even
> better but not necessary.

Oh I thought it was meant for 0.8 :s

> - VMiklos

crazy