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authorJohn (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>2007-08-24 22:25:56 (GMT)
committer John (J5) Palmieri <johnp@redhat.com>2007-08-24 22:25:56 (GMT)
commit2cae66b0ea86235788220c9f7b05aa2ad4fdc58f (patch)
treeaa592c5fcc95931b6a5a736d7c7cecafac6accf7 /sugar/activity/registry.py
parent628fe7b5da46b7618c391b91c9e130b30d4b6623 (diff)
More follow_name_owner_changed optimiztion
* reasoning changed from a FIXME to a NOTE to explain why we need to follow_name_owner_changed
Diffstat (limited to 'sugar/activity/registry.py')
-rw-r--r--sugar/activity/registry.py9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sugar/activity/registry.py b/sugar/activity/registry.py
index 2f6b567..8fdae2f 100644
--- a/sugar/activity/registry.py
+++ b/sugar/activity/registry.py
@@ -50,10 +50,11 @@ class ActivityRegistry(gobject.GObject):
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
- # FIXME: Is follow_name_owner_changes what we really want?
- # It speeds up the start time by about 2 seconds
- # but is really a side effect of starting a proxy
- # in this state (i.e. we don't block in the constructor)
+ # NOTE: We need to follow_name_owner_changes here
+ # because we can not connect to a signal unless
+ # we follow the changes or we start the service
+ # before we connect. Starting the service here
+ # causes a major bottleneck during startup
bus_object = bus.get_object(_ACTIVITY_REGISTRY_SERVICE_NAME,
_ACTIVITY_REGISTRY_PATH,
follow_name_owner_changes = True)