On Fri, 2001-11-30 at 07:06, Olivier Dormond wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Since the introduction of the gnome-control-center package, some of the
> settings have been split in a -capplet and -control progy. For instance,
> the backgroud is configured from background-properties-capplet and the
> background-properties-control does the job of actually appling the
> changes.
>
> If you run the -control it will register with the session-manager and
> will be restared on login an thus set the corresponding prefs correctly.
> The probleme is that most of the -capplet won't start their -control
> part when a change is made. I guess this is so because you don't want to
> have as many -control running as changes made in the -capplet.
>
> The feets which appears on the splash screen are related to this
> -control beeing executed and the gnome not knowing what they are for and
> thus unable to find an icon for them.
>
> Actually this mis-understanding between the different gnome components
> is such that the gnome-session manager will keep multiple copies of a
> -control registered in it's config. If you count the number of feets you
> should have as many -control entries in the .gnome/session.
>
> I don't know if this is mainly a Mandrake or a Gnome bug. Could any one
> from Mandrake comment on this ? I'm not a gnome hacker so I may be
> wrong.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Odie
>
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> | Olivier Dormond aka Odie [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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>
fcrozat?
Yes, my guess is that it is some nastiness left over from the split and
thus a Mandrake issue. I am not an _active_ 'gnome' hacker but my
vicous-builds for 1.4+ and 2 are fine.
