glib+orbit

[bob cs csoft net]

I am trying to get a g_timeout to work with orbit. I have looked through
the gconf code, and kinda figured out to do it, but it seems very genaric.
why is this code not in orbit itself?

also, a GMainLoop question.
in gconfd, the global var main_loops is defined. Why does it exist? I
spent the last few hours trying to figure out how GMainLoop works (there
is like no dox on it), and it looks like there can only ever be one main
loop, so why does main_loops exist? (or was this code copied out of gtk,
the only other place I could find it?)

Thanks,
Bob