On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:12 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
> > Sure. But dbus provides services which are provided by notifications and > AppleEvents on OSX. If a supposedly cross-platform application supports > only the dbus way, it turns out to be pretty autistic on OSX. I don't think > that it's all that common for OSX users (aside from the few Fink and > MacPorts users who are trying to replicate an entire Linux environement) to > run more than one or two dbus-using apps, and they aren't able to > communicate with other OSX application or OSX itself unless those channels > are separately implemented. > > So maybe g_dbus isn't the right place for the abstraction layer; it could > be one of the implementation layers. > i think that is precisely what is being proposed: GApplication/GtkApplication as the abstaction that covers notifications etc, and an implementation for a given platform. the linux/X11/FD.org one would use DBus. apps that choose to use DBus directly will be assumed to want something specific that DBus offers, and not a generic platform-agnostic "application abstraction".
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