Re: do we really need xrdb?

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 10/17/05, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> One of the best improvements we've seen while working on speeding up the
> GNOME startup time has been the removal of the xsettings thing, via xrdb
> -merge execution.

It was also one of the things identified by Lorenzo as providing a
significant boost in speed-up time, discussed in the thread started at
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-August/msg00245.html.
 I'm hoping we can remove it, although Lorenzo also pointed out that
we could achieve the same benefit by just calling xrdb with the -nocpp
switch (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2005-August/msg00266.html)
-- something that would most likely work for 99% of the users of any
of the apps you have in your list below.

> Ben Kahn came up with a list of apps that still need this:
>
> acroread 5
> Emacs
> Anything written in Tk (aMSN, crossover office, much corporate custom
> software)
> Anything written in Motif (slowly being replaced, but still a lot of
> software)
> Anything written in XForms (oddly, a lot of scientific software...)
> Apps that ship with the X server: xterm, xedit, xclock, etc.
>
> Anything else?
>
> So, do we really want to keep around the xrdb thing in
> gnome-settings-daemon?

Cheers,
Elijah