Re: Gvfs and icons

[Hans Petter Jansson <hpj novell com>]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 11:00 +0100, Michael Meeks wrote:

> 	Not sure if this is fixed [ hpj was poking AFAIR ]; but last I looked,
> as soon as you start doing anything even slightly interesting with URLs,
> ( even creating 'file://' ones, or was it desktop:// or trash:// (?) ) -
> GIO et. al. go away and launch rather a slew of daemons over d-bus - for
> reasons that escape me.
> 
> 	That (most likely) has an impact on login / boot time too - or has that
> been re-worked ? my recollection is hazy [ as you see ;-]; but it seems
> to me that on login, to render the default desktop, it should not be
> necessary to hang around waiting for a slew daemon and helpers to start.

It's been a while since I looked at this, but what I remember was that
we could avoid it for file:// URIs. However, it was harder to avoid for
trash and desktop.

In the end, the net gain was not noticeable, since Nautilus wants both
file://, desktop:// and trash:// before it does anything. I looked into
that too, but it was looking like too much work in the time frame we had
then. Also, GVFS startup didn't look like a big hit in the profiles
(though it might be bigger where seeks matter more).

-- 
Hans Petter