Re: nautilus vs. gnome-settings-daemon "race"

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 01:57, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> On 15 Jul 2002, jacob berkman wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 14:54, jacob berkman wrote:
> > > gnome-settings-daemon currently checks to see if nautilus is running,
> > > and if so won't draw the background image.
> > >
> > > gnome-session starts gnome-settings-daemon before nautilus, so nautilus
> > > isn't running when gnome-settings-daemon goes to draw the background.
> > > this causes the background to get drawn twice, which slows down login a
> > > bit.
> >
> > here's a different approach - since gsm spawns gsd, we can just tell it
> > directly via monikers whether it should draw the background or not.
> 
> 	That sounds better, a lot easier and cleaner to do with an
> item handler.
>
> 	What I'm getting at is, if the bug in bonobo-activation is
> fixed, we can remove all this again - right ?

1.  it's not a bug - it's a feature
2.  it would still be nice to be able to tell gsd that we are going to
run nautilus so that it doesn't do the background stuff if nautilus is
just going to do it in a few seconds.

 - jacob