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

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-07-20 at 23:34, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 16:40, jacob berkman wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 12:35, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > > Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes: 
> > > > Avoiding any other comment on this thread, gnome-settings-daemon
> > > > really needs to be launched _first_, before any other apps.
> > > > 
> > > > Otherwise, all the apps on the desktop will quite likely have
> > > > to do one or more "theme switches" when g-s-d starts up, which
> > > > is not conducive to a fast and attractive startup.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Hmm, good point.
> > > 
> > > Jacob what if it set the background after a timeout, or on receipt of
> > > a special "login complete" X message that gnome-session could send to
> > > the root window, whichever comes first, and if nautilus is not
> > > running?
> > 
> > i'm starting to think we should just spend 15 minutes at the summit and
> > sort it out in person...
> 
> Heya,
> 
> First I wanted to know if this problem was discussed at the summit.

nothing more than havoc agreeing that my last patch is the right fix
(going to commit momentarily).

> Second question is (sorry, didn't look at the code, blame me) if the
> case where nautilus was to be started but nautilus not set to draw the
> desktop was handled ?

that was always checked.

 - jacob