Re: About gconfd-2

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 06:06:58PM +0100, dballester kernpharma com wrote:
> 
> The clock applet :/
> 
> Under .gconf/apps/panel/profiles/default/applets exist 7 directories with
> strange and large names like 'dfrttr5etr5455tt...', and one with
> 'clock_applet', all of them where updating is last modification date at the
> same time that my disk makes the noise. When i removed the clock applet,
> the noise disapeared.
> Seems to be another applications making some work with disk ( the led is
> blinking continously, but at least, the works is not so much as with the
> clock applet activated.
> Do you know Why is this happening? I'm resisting to the idea of processes
> accessing all the time to disk, when the computer is only waiting for input
> from an user ( this computer is for desktop use, without heavy or intensive
> usage ).
> 

Can you file a report on http://bugzilla.gnome.org against the clock
applet? (Product gnome-panel I believe.)

Havoc