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[Sergio Gelato <Sergio.Gelato@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Matthieu Baerts [2015-08-06 11:55:05 +0000]:
> Yes, you are right! The problem is that we cannot simply add gnome/unity-settings-daemon as required component because it will force installing almost all GNOME/Unity packages on other sessions (e.g. it can be annoying for KUbuntu users).
> But it can be interesting to only install it on GNOME/Unity sessions, e.g.:
> 
>     unity-settings-daemon | e17 | kde-workspace | openbox | lxsession |
> xfce4-session | mate-session-manager | razorqt-session | cinnamon-
> session
> 
> (or gnome-settings-daemon for Trusty)
> What do you think about that?

That it has the same problem I alluded to about cairo-dock-core: *any*
of the packages in the list will satisfy the dependency, so if I for
example install both gnome-session and xfce4-session on the same system
(so that users may have a choice of desktop environments) xfce4-session
will satisfy the dependency and unity-settings-daemon will not be pulled in.
So that's no good.

How about moving /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/cairo-dock.session
to a separate package and making *that* depend on unity-settings-daemon?

> ** Changed in: cairo-dock (Ubuntu)
>        Status: New => Incomplete

Why incomplete? We may not have found a fully satisfactory solution yet,
but the statement of the problem doesn't seem incomplete to me.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1464517

Title:
  cairo-dock-data is missing a dependency on gnome-settings-daemon

Status in cairo-dock package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/cairo-dock.session lists gnome-
  settings-daemon (on trusty; may be unity-settings-daemon for some
  releases of Ubuntu) as a required component. This is a real
  requirement: when gnome-session-bin is installed but gnome-settings-
  daemon isn't, attempts to log in to a cairo-dock desktop session fail
  with the following messages in .xsession-errors:

  gnome-session[17624]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'gnome-settings-daemon'
  gnome-session[17624]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

  Installing gnome-settings-daemon is sufficient to cure this symptom.
  That makes me think that cairo-dock-data (which provides cairo-
  dock.session) ought to have an explicit Depends: gnome-settings-daemon
  (or possibly a Recommends:, but definitely nothing less than that).

  I see that cairo-dock-core has a Recommends: gnome-session | <other
  stuff>, but that's so likely to be satisfied by one of the other
  choices to be almost useless. A survey of my trusty desktops indicates
  that systems upgraded from precise have gnome-session installed but
  fresh trusty installs only have gnome-session-bin. gnome-session
  depends on gnome-settings-daemon but gnome-session-bin does not.

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