Re: Gnome Session Services Framework



Hi Mark;

A couple of comments follow...

Mark McLoughlin wrote:

Hi Bill,
	Thanks, this sounds fairly straightforward.

On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:24 +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
Hi Mark:

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I was thinking about when the ATs are started. On thinking further I realize that my memory of AT startup order issues has become fuzzy, so I am probably forgetting some things. Here's what I recall:

1) g-s-d needs to have been started before any applications (including the panel, nautilus, etc.); this is probably true generally of gnome and so isn't relevant to the Session Services discussion.

	I don't think its true that g-s-d absolutely has to be started before
all other apps - applications should be able to react to most, if not
all, changes g-s-d makes, I think - but we certainly would prefer if
apps didn't map a window before g-s-d set the gtk+ theme Xsetting, for
example.
The 'accessibility' gconf key has to be set before any apps start, since there is currently no means for loading accessibility support "after the fact".

	So, its not as simple as "don't start any apps until g-s-d has applied
all its settings", since there's a lot these apps could be doing before
they need g-s-d to have applied its settings.

Similarly bonobo-activation needs to be working on first query.

	The first app which makes a query launches b-a-s, so there's no
implications here, I think.
Right.

2) gnome-session's own environment needs to include any accessibility-specific env settings such as GNOME_DISABLE_CRASH_DIALOG=1 and GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge (the latter for GTK-only apps that need to be accessible). Again, probably not affected by the Session Services proposal.

	And, indeed, I think D-BUS needs to have these env variables. If any
app is launched using D-BUS activation, those apps need to have those
env variables too.

Sounds correct to me.

3) Performance is much better if ATs are started last, because otherwise they have to process a stream of events that are mostly just a result of 'constructing' the desktop services and apps.

	Right, that sounds sensible.
Thanks again

Bill

Cheers,
Mark.





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