Comment 112 for bug 1335492

(In reply to <email address hidden> from comment #79)
> This bug is not fixed at all. There is a good chance reading icon positions
> from $HOME/.config/xfce4/desktop.conf is not finished before reading icons
> from $HOME/Desktop having icons rearrange. There is no locking nothing to
> make sure the icon positions are known BEFORE starting to read "Desktop".
> And if this occurs the icons WILL again rearrange!
> It will depend on how many applications you start, on IO-load, what is done
> in background. Processes reading many small files from disk, like
> man-page-updates, can trigger it.
> A fast look at what the code does made clear: you do not have anything
> making sure the two threads: read "Desktop", read "Config" are not forced to
> run after each other. The part positioning the icons isn't locked at all. It
> will run concurrently to read config if read desktop is finished. It is
> triggered every time an item is read from read Desktop -- regardless reading
> configs is ready or not.

Hi,
I don't know the code, so forgive me if I am rude or naive, but why are there two threads if they need to run one after the other?
Shouldn't there be a single thread running things properly?
Regards