[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#480223: dbus-x11: allow for session.conf in user home directory

[Ludovico Gardenghi]

Package: dbus-x11
Version: 1.2.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

The current mechanism for launching dbus at the beginning of a X session makes
it difficult for a user to specify a custom config file. He may add a
dbus-launch with custom options to the .xsessionrc file but
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch adds another dbus-launch to STARTUP
without checking anything.

I added a check in this file (patch attached) that passes dbus-launch the
--config-file= option if it finds a ~/dbus/session.conf file. This way, users
can simply create a custom version of the session.conf file and have it loaded
at X startup.

I understand this is a partial fix: it would be nicer to change dbus so to
make it check for a ~/.dbus/session.conf file by default when starting with
--session. Lots of programs check for a ~/.somethingrc file before looking in
/etc/somethingrc. IMHO dbus-daemon should do the same.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-ripieno (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dbus-x11 depends on:
ii  dbus                          1.2.1-2    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.0.3-7  X11 client-side library

dbus-x11 recommends no packages.

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