Hi list I'm starting to hack on a little utility that sits on the session bus emitting signals to alert any interested applications of session presence updates. The idea is that all applications that are interested in doing magic things when the user is "away", etc., no longer need to have their own code for dealing with it, and that the user does not have to set themselves as "Gone to the shops" in more than one application (IM clients being the obvious case).
My idea is to take the simple concept of the Gossip status icon and put it into this new app. Of course, this isn't the only way to set status, as any app on the session bus can manipulate it. This includes cases such as Metacity, which could temporarily set the status to Busy when running a full-screen application (of course this would be configurable via Metacity's own options). Perhaps one day, the functionality of this application could be merged into GNOME Session or something. Does anybody have any comments on this idea? Does anybody see anything negative about this approach? Thanks for reading! -- Alex Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
