Comment 64 for bug 146918

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era (era) wrote :

@Chris Coulson: somebody who understands what gnome-settings-daemon and its "helper" do should improve the _Comment field (or add if missing) in their .desktop files.

See e.g. comment #21 for a slightly more detailed problem analysis and comment #43 and the following ones for a draft proposal. Some comments of mine in comment #47 might be useful as guidance for the person authoring the descriptions.

To my current understanding, gnome-settings-daemon is the thing which communicates between gconf and individual gconf clients. What role the "helper" plays in this I don't know. To reiterate remarks from comment #21, is it really absolutely necessary for there to be two different components in the Startup Applications dialog? It would seem like an improvement both for usability and functional purposes to have a single entry there; if it needs to start two processes behind the scenes then so be it, but that should probably not be exposed to the user in this fashion (assuming that it does not really make much sense to run the daemon without the helper, or vice versa); but please understand that my mental model of this is probably less than adequate.