Sebastien, I urge you to reopen this bug. You cannot describe this as desirable behaviour.
Why should using any GNOME application start-up the whole of GNOME? Are you really saying that a music player needs to launch a screensaver? -- Rhythmbox launches gnome-screensaver https://launchpad.net/bugs/87591 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs