Gustavo Noronha Silva authored Apr 18, 2014 and Gustavo Noronha Silva committed Apr 18, 2014

By creating and starting the timer on clutter_main() an assumption is made
that that is how the main loop will be run for all clutter applications.
With more and more applications moving to GApplication, this assumption no
longer holds true.

Moving to clutter_init() means we are starting the timer earlier than we
should, and by not stopping it when the main loop quits we are taking a
measure that is later than we should. I believe it is safe to consider
those are close enough to the actual beginning and quitting of the main
loop in practice.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728521