Re: Pluggable settings daemon

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Dec 18, 2007 12:24 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
>
> 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...
>

One (ugly) route to explore would be using a separate display
connection for the xkb stuff.