Re: sound init in gnome-settings-daemon

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:54:45PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Rodrigo Moya">
> 
> > Looking at how to improve gnome-session startup, I found both
> > gnome-session and gnome-settings-daemon are starting ESD.
> > 
> > I guess we really want one of them to start it, so which one should be
> > removed? My first thought is to remove the one in g-s-d. Is that ok? Or am
> > I missing anything?
> 
> I agree - I tend to think g-s-d is managing a bunch of sessiony stuff atm
> because they're settings related (esd, xscreensaver, etc). These are
> probably best managed as services to the desktop, as part of the session.

We'd need to armor the capplets against a missing session if these
move.  The capplets ensure that the g-s-d is running.  They have no
similar requirement enforced for a session.