popup message before Appearance window

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Montag, den 02.05.2011, 20:03 +0200 schrieb 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.

I don't think this is a desktop file, mint-menu hardcodes a lot of
gnome-stuff so it doesn't make much sense to use it in Xfce.

Regards,
Christoph