[Bug 146918] Re: Poor descriptions for some applications in Startup Programs window

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@Chris Coulson: somebody who understands what gnome-settings-daemon and
its "helper" do should improve the _Comment field (or add if missing) in
their .desktop files.

See e.g. comment #21 for a slightly more detailed problem analysis and
comment #43 and the following ones for a draft proposal.  Some comments
of mine in comment #47 might be useful as guidance for the person
authoring the descriptions.

To my current understanding, gnome-settings-daemon is the thing which
communicates between gconf and individual gconf clients.  What role the
"helper" plays in this I don't know.  To reiterate remarks from comment
#21, is it really absolutely necessary for there to be two different
components in the Startup Applications dialog?  It would seem like an
improvement both for usability and functional purposes to have a single
entry there; if it needs to start two processes behind the scenes then
so be it, but that should probably not be exposed to the user in this
fashion (assuming that it does not really make much sense to run the
daemon without the helper, or vice versa); but please understand that my
mental model of this is probably less than adequate.

** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => New

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Poor descriptions for some applications in Startup Programs window
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146918
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