Doesn't timeout to user session with UNR

[Jorge Castro]

Testing on a Karmic UNR install - after logging in xsplash sits there and doesn't fade out when netbook-launcher is done loading, I have to hit Escape for it to reveal the launcher.

[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

We should wait for a signal from either netbook-launcher or nautilus (or find another way of knowing the desktop is loaded). This it really a dupe of the timeout bug, we need a way of handling the UNR case.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

The workaround seems to be to switch to a text console and kill the xsplash process.

Are we sure it's a good idea to roll this into UNR, given there is additional integration work needed in order for it to work there?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Set importance to critical, since this seems to make it impossible to login to UNR in the normal fashion.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

The "timeout bug" mentioned above seems to be bug 412455. I don't agree that this is a duplicate, though. The timeout is a failsafe, and shouldn't normally be invoked. If we're going to use xsplash in UNR, it should be fixed to be triggered explicitly when the desktop is ready, no?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I think that if 412455 is fixed, this can be reduced to High importance, as the login should succeed (just slow)

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

10:12 < mdz> ogra: I'm looking for answers to the question I posed in the bug "is this a good idea for UNR?" :-_
10:13 < ogra> i guess its an as good/bad idea for UNR as it is for the std. desktop, looks more like a workaround to not break alpha
10:13 < ogra> but i wouldnt see any difference between UNR or -desktop here
10:15 < mdz> ogra: the idea is that xsplash gets a signal when it's time for it to shut down and display the real desktop. that requires integration with the launcher (in this case) which was not planned work
10:15 < ogra> oh, imho it should get the signal from gnome-session rather
10:16 < ogra> that would be consistent across UNR and -desktop
10:16 < ogra> and not require special hacks

Given this, I'm marking 412555 as a duplicate of 412455 and opening a task against gnome-session.