Re: Login time

[Magnus Boman <captain magnus gmail com>]

Federico,

Looking at the page http://live.gnome.org/GnomePerformance/LoginTime you
want to patch Nautilus to see when the Desktop is loaded and painted.
Would it be possible to see this via strace? If that's the case, it
should be easy to use strace and fifo in combination with a script to
see when it's done?

If the above is true, the I guess the same goes for gnome-panel and
gnome-session?

Cheers,
Magnus

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 08:34 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> El vie, 06-04-2007 a las 18:34 +1000, Andrew Cowie escribi� > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:09 +0100, Iain * wrote:
> > > The desktop is just another window, but a special cased one with no
> > > toolbars, statusbars etc.
> > 
> > Once upon a time X had the notion of a root window and an image or
> > pattern could be placed upon it. Does nautilus [not] use this?
> 
> Advantages of using the root window:
> 
> - It's just there.
> 
> Disadvantages of using the root window:
> 
> - Multi-visual X servers (especially ancient ones from Sun, HP, SGI,
> etc.) like to use an 8-bit pseudocolor visual for the root window.  GTK+
> prefers to run in 24-bit truecolor if available.  Having to manage
> different visuals is painful and error-prone, and you don't want ugly
> 8-bit dithering on your desktop background anyway.
> 
> - You can't easily have different backgrounds on each screen or virtual
> desktop.
> 
> - It's harder for Nautilus to hang GTK+ widgets from the root window; it
> prefers a normal toplevel.
> 
> - The Window Manager Spec already has provisions for such
> desktop-background windows, so window managers know how to handle them.
> If a window manager [particularly Enlightenment] wants to have its own
> concept of a "virtual root window", it can accomodate Nautilus easily.
> 
>   Federico
> 
> 
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