dawati/dawati-shell — Issue #14: Pretend to be a GNOME session
Author: rossburton
Created: 2011-12-20 10:32:47+00:00
State: open

Some applications try to determine what environment they are running in and change their behaviour, i.e. Adobe Air. We should support this by doing the same as gnome-session and export some env vars, specifically:

export GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID="this-is-deprecated"

(that's taken from GNOME ironically, but it's the variable that is checked by third parties)

At the moment in MeeGo this is done with a script in /etc/profile.d, but this will be a common problem once Dawati is running on non-MeeGo distros.