Re: Pluggable settings daemon

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:10 +0000, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> > Is there any way we could have Out-Of-Process plugins as well? This
> > would allow finer-grained X events filtering (ie. per-process) and would
> > reduce the wake-up rate (so gnome-settings-daemon wouldn't wake up for
> > every keypress).
> As I've already said on GUADEC, OOP plugins could  be a dangerous idea
> - it would lead to slow startup time. At the moment, GNOME startup
> sequence is highly optimized, and IMHO one of the reasons it is so
> fast is because there are not many processes starting up. Please do
> not spoil that beauty;)

Not all of them, just the ones that use keyboard filters. Otherwise I'll
leave it up to you to add magic to avoid waking up the whole of
gnome-settings-daemon every time somebody types a key...