On 23 Jan 2006, at 21:36, David Ayers wrote:
Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb:
We could finish getting the NSWorkspace class to do what it was
originally designed to do ... provide the list of launched apps as
supplied by the workspace manager. That would be a small
modification
to NSWorkspace and to GWorkspace. However, we would want some
fallback
option for if/when GWorkspace is not running. Perhaps a minimal
workspace manager daemon, or perhaps NSWorkspace could write to a
small
database (eg a plist file in a temporary directory) to maintain the
state information. The latter has the advantages of not
requiring an
additional daemon to run (I have no problem with daemons, but I know
many people have objections to them) and is persistent if the
workspace
manager is restarted (we need that). The former has the advantages
that it would provide a testbed and reference implementation for
workspace managers. I suppose we could do both.
I could very well be missing something obvious but I seems to me that
gdnc would be a good candidate to provide this service.
If we want to put the functionality into an existing daemon, I think
gpbs would be the best option, as it is part of the gui/back
libraries (ie related to applications) while gdnc provides a service
for the base library.
However, if we want to provide a reference implementation that
developers of workspace managers can look at, I think a standalone
process would be better than attaching the functionality to an
existing daemon... and if we don't want to do that, my preference
would be not to bother at all ... just use an on-disk database of
the information we need, and modify GWorkspace as our standard
workspace manager.
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