In general On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Ryan Lortie <[email protected]> wrote: > > - the weirdness of a constructor that sometimes exit()s your program
We need some API that eventually calls exit()...it's just something we have to live with as we try to cobble together an operating system on top of unix and .desktop files. > - actions can't have parameters Why can't that be added later. > > - GApplication as it stands is incapable of implementing the mockups we > saw for the shell -- its support for putting actions on the > application menu is extremely limited It works for the basic things. > - the "gedit as $EDITOR" use case Can be added later. > - the way that application lifecycle was defined was not sufficiently > flexible NEEDINFO? > - it didn't do some things that almost every app would want to have > done for it Like...what? > - the missed chance to implement the "use dbus to launch apps" ability I don't think we miss the chance; there could be a GIO extension point added later, so that if an app is executed directly via unix binary, we instead send a message to org.gnome.Session to launch it. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
