Re: Signalling when the desktop is loaded

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 10:10 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Emmanuele Bassi<ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 14:54 +0100, Neil J Patel wrote:
> >
> >> I would love to have Nautilus running in UNR as it handles
> >> auto-mounting much better than the launcher can, however it does not
> >> have a 'daemon-mode' so it doesn't run until the user needs to browse
> >> a file[2].
> >>
> >
> >> [1] I believe I filed a bug for this, but can't find the number right now.
> >> [2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541262
> >> [*] I've got half-patches for both these bugs, just need time to complete them.
> >
> > Neil, have you seen bug 579574? I left a comment on bug 541262 but I
> > wanted to mention it here as well: Moblin uses Nautilus to handle
> > automounting but we don't use it to draw the desktop as well, since...
> > well, we don't have a "desktop" but a neutral background.
> 
> I think I would prefer to see
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585545 fixed.

I wholeheartedly agree; having the automounting logic inside a separate
component would make it more useful for special environments like Moblin
and UNR.

I just wanted to point out that Nautilus already has a "daemon" mode as
requested by Neil. :-)

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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