Re: GNOME 2.4 in Cambridge

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:20:48PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > It is if you enable TCP CORBA connections between the two machines, 
> > or somewhat more dangerously if you use GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS=1
> > 
> 
> What makes this one so much more dangerous?

Because you can sometimes get inconsistent configuration state that
confuses the panel or gnome-terminal. Usually would show up as losing
terminal profiles or losing panels probably. I would expect this to be
rare but Owen argues it will happen a lot, and there have been a
couple reports.
 
> And as you and I have talked about before. In some cases it is
> impossible.  b/c the two machines might not be able to see each
> other.

Yep.

Havoc