KAutoStart

[Lubos Lunak]

On Saturday 04 March 2006 23:37, Christian Esken wrote:
> Am Samstag, 4. März 2006 23:08 schrieb Lubos Lunak:
> > On Saturday 04 March 2006 23:03, Christian Esken wrote:
> > > Take for example volume restauration: It must have
> > > FINISHED, before the login sound is played. How can you guarantee that?
> > > At the moment I cannot, but hope to do so in KDE4 (see
> > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91267).
> >
> >  Kcminit is completely performed[*] before ksmserver (which triggers the
> > login sound) is launched, so I fail to see your problem.
>
> The problem is as follows:
> 1) kcminit is run ... it is not restore volumes
> 2) ksmserver is started ... triggers login sound
> 3) Autostart programs are launched: autostart/restore_kmix_volumes.desktop
> restores volumes

 Nobody says it has to be autostarted. In fact, it shouldn't be. Just make it 
a module for kcontrol/kcminit, faster, works, what do you need more?

> Probably restore_kmix_volumes.desktop just shouldn't be a normal autostart
> application, but triggered "manually" before ksmserver.

 Speaking of autostart abuse, it could be interesting to actually check how 
many things don't belong there - WTH is there e.g. kgpg?

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Lubos Lunak
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