On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 09:43 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> > (Crappy write-up, but I just haven't had time to sort it out. Sorry!)
>
> GUnique already uses D-Bus (with bacon as a backup). So, how is your
> proposal different than GUnique? (Other than startup-notification not
> being mentioned in your proposal yet?)
One thing that a hard dependency on D-Bus could provide is more ability
to extend the mechanism to provide for additional application needs.
A generic mechanism can provide handle the needs of gnome-terminal or
gedit; but not every command that you might want to pass to a desktop
singleton is "open a new window".
I think it would be a little strange from an API point of view to have
to do one thing (GUnique) to get "open a new window" functionality,
and then entirely something else to get "scriptable singleton"
functionality.
Is "extensible" compatible with hiding the gory details of start-up
notification timestamps? I don't know. I don't have a good sense
of what a prototypical D-Bus exporting application looks like.
What I've seen tends to be a bit messy, especially in C.
- Owen
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