desktop discussion

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 15:31 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> >  6. Daniel Veillard is hacking on a per-user daemon to replace
> >     the FAM system daemon, primarily motivated by SELinux
> >     (FAM system daemon lets you violate the security boundaries)
> 
> 
> What is it that fam is supposed to achieve? I know it does file change
> notification but I've never noticed a change in system behavior from
> when it is off or on. Is Daniel's work on line somewhere?

You should definitely notice a change with it off in rawhide.  Install a
new app, watch the gnome-vfs menu backend not notice the change and you
get to kill gnome-panel to refresh your menus.  

Jeremy