Re: sound init in gnome-settings-daemon

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 11:54 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> 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.

would calling gnome_sound_connection_get and then only start esd if that
fails work?
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>