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

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 17:33, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 21:24, jacob berkman wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 17:01, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 20:30, jacob berkman wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 16:20, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > My bad, didn't see the patch. But what if nautilus isn't started for
> > > some reasons ? For example, the user has removed nautilus, or nautilus
> > > crashes on startup.
> > 
> > the user can't remove nautilus - gsm has already read the list of apps
> > it's going to start.  there's no way for the user to axe things at this
> > point.
> 
> So if the admin removed Nautilus in between two of the user's sessions,
> it won't work, right ?

oh, you mean uninstall it.  yes this is the only bad case - however the
sysadmin should provide a migration path which would work here.

 - jacob