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In 2006, Dan Winship presented some ideas about the future of session management in GNOME. He wrote the initial code and defined this nice architecture which turns gnome-session into a more generic session management system and makes it easier to eventually replace the current XSMP-based session management with a saner and less cryptic D-Bus-based protocol in the future. On June 2007, he made a code drop on a branch called new-gnome-session and stopped working on that (for various personal reasons).
Since October 2007, I’ve been sparsely working on this new code (with full support from Dan) on my spare time by filling some gaps, fixing bugs, implementing missing features, etc. So, now the code reached a functional state and I’ve just merged the new-gnome-session branch in trunk. Vincent Untz and I will be working on making the new code shine for 2.24.
If you want to know the general ideas around the new gnome-session, read:
http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/NewGnomeSession
Most of the design and features described there are already implemented (if not all).
If you want to know what’s still missing and want to help us, read:
http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/Todo
The new gnome-session is fully compatible with current session clients (GnomeClient and others) and no code changes are required on existing apps. However, some simple changes are necessary on some basic components that run during the session such as gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-panel, nautilus, metacity, gnome-keyring, etc. I have most of the patches ready and I’ll be filing bugs for each component soon (actually, I’ve made other necessary changes in some modules during the 2.21/2.22 cycle already).
Big thanks to Dan! This important move would not be possible without his support and invaluable efforts.
There’s still a lot to do during this development cycle.
Testing and patches are more than welcome!
I really enjoyed my time at Nokia and Finland. I was very lucky to directly work with very talented and generous people. I’ve made some good friends here and it will be hard to say goodbye soon. My last day at Nokia is March 28th.
It’s too early to tell about what I’ll be doing in the near future. Exciting stuff, for sure. :-P
Update: Xan, Tommi and Johan (who doesn’t have a blog) are leaving too. See you around guys! :-)
As Adam has already announced, if you are GNOME developer and want GNOME to rock on the Google Summer of Code this year, don’t forget to add your ideas to our SoC project ideas page. We’ve got many ideas already but I’m sure we can have more. Go Go Go!