On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 13:28 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: > 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.
Just to make it clear, the code in in Bugzilla is just some reference code that I can use as a guide. I wrote it from the point of view of trying to work out if it was possible (and for educational enlightenment). If I get the go ahead from you on the principle then I will refine it and add it into the actual code (and add support for the progress bar value.) I'll then post the patch for review. Cheers, Rob
