popup message before Appearance window

[Mike Massonnet]

Hi Albert,

2011/5/2 Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net>:
> MintMenu->Preferences->Appearance pops up a message:
>
> "Unable to start the settings manager 'gnome-settings-daemon'.
> Without the GNOME settings manager running, some preferences may not take
> effect. This could indicate a problem with DBus, or a non-GNOME (e.g. KDE)
> settings manager may already be active and conflicting with the GNOME
> settings manager."
>
> Is this an artifact of using the Mint Menu in the Mint Xfce release?  Can it
> be remedied?

Please direct this request to the Mint Linux distribution directly,
indeed it is abnormal that the Xfce desktop provides a .desktop file
related to gnome-settings-daemon, instead of
xfce4-appearance-settings.

Thank you
-- 
Mike