Rob Bradford wrote: > I've posted an explanation and reference code to Bugzilla #43.
> Here is a short recap, however i'd prefer it if the conversation > remained on that bug in order to keep it all together. > Since the purpose of the footer (as far as I can make out from the wiki) > is to only show information from the client with the topmost window I > would suggest tracking the X _NET_WINDOW_ACTIVE property and then using > a moko specific property to provide this information rather than using > dbus to update the footer. > I think that this approach should give better performance with lower > latency, it should also require fewer context switches which are painful > on ARM. Another benefit of this approach is that all applications will > not need to link with dbus and the overhead that that brings. Well, we might have to link all or at least a lot of applications with dbus sooner or later anyway (due to new services in mokocore), but I agree with your performance argument. I'll have a look at your patch in bugzilla now and comment afterwards. Regards, - Michael Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://openmoko.org/ ============================================================================ Software for the worlds' first truly open Free Software mobile phone
