Re: nautilus vs. gnome-settings-daemon "race"

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 16:20, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 20:03, jacob berkman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 15:47, Gregory Merchan wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 01:54:25PM -0400, jacob berkman wrote:
> > > > gnome-settings-daemon currently checks to see if nautilus is running,
> > > > and if so won't draw the background image.
> > > > 
> > > > gnome-session starts gnome-settings-daemon before nautilus, so nautilus
> > > > isn't running when gnome-settings-daemon goes to draw the background. 
> > > > this causes the background to get drawn twice, which slows down login a
> > > > bit.
> > > > 
> > > > this patch makes gnome-session set a property on the root window if it
> > > > is going to run nautilus, and gnome-settings-daemon checks this and
> > > > nautilus' gconf key at startup.  if they're both on, it won't draw the
> > > > background.
> > > > 
> > > > i plan on committing this monday/tuesday, but comments/flames/criticisms
> > > > are welcome.
> > > > 
> > > >  - jacob
> > > 
> > > Flame on!  But first a question.
> > > 
> > > Which do you want: to fix the problem or to cover it up for a while so that
> > > GNOME uses 3 or more times as much code as needed?
> > 
> > i want something that makes my login faster now, thanks.
> > 
> > loading / scaling the bg image seems to be very slow on my ultra 2. 
> > maybe because i am scaling a 48x48 image to 1280x1024 + gradient
> > background...
> > 
> > > gnome-session might be able to modify the arguments passed to g-s-d depending
> > > on whether it is going to run nautilus. g-s-d could take an argument which
> > > prevents it from drawing. Can the session manager do this and how does this
> > > compare to interning atoms then setting and getting properties?
> > 
> > i guess it could do some moniker thingie when starting g-s-d... should
> > be easier to do i guess.
> 
> Gnome-session knows if it's about to start nautilus or not, no ? If so,
> you could add some way to delay g-s-d's bg application.

did you look at the patch?  this is what it does, except that g-s-d
doesn't delay it, it just never does it.

 - jacob