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

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 01:38, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> On 24 Jul 2002, jacob berkman wrote:
> 
> > what do the capplets contact g-s-d for, other than to make sure it's
> > running so the settings will actually change?
> 
> 	Indeed, I hadn't realised that SettingsDaemon::awake was
> basically a no-op. Now I see absolutely no reason for Bonobo to be
> involved. It would be very easy for the capplets to use another method
> to see if g-s-d is running and start it if not, would it not ?

well bonobo-activation is just supposed to work, so any other code adds
the possibility that it doesn't work...

although in this case one could probably do it with an x property dingus
pretty easily.

 - jacob