Re: Login time

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

Michael Meeks wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:08 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
>> Anyway, the net result is that GNOME startup goes: launch metacity, wait
>> for metacity to register, launch the panel, wait for the panel to
>> register, launch nautilus, wait for nautilus to register, launch
>> everything else all at once. In theory.
> 
> 	If we taught nautilus about the panel gconf keys for sizing /
> placement, such that it would adjust it's psuedo-root windows to the
> right shape whether the panel was there or not; would that not let us
> launch both the panel & nautilus as 'normal' apps in parallel.

Maybe. But it would totally lose if you used gimmie, or bigboard, or
gkrellm or whatever instead of/in addition to the regular panel.

> [ Or
> would we need to teach the WM about where the panel lives too to avoid
> post-map movement ? ].

That too.

-- Dan