Re: [SailfishDevel] Keep an application running without keeping the window open

2018-02-17 Thread Adam Pigg
Hi You could create a dbus service for the application to talk to. The gui application can launch the dbus service if it isnt running, and connect next time it is opened, leaving it running in the background. Adam On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 at 20:58 rinigus wrote: > Hi, > >

Re: [SailfishDevel] Keep an application running without keeping the window open

2018-02-17 Thread rinigus
Hi, from the point of view of portability, having a split GUI and backend should be nicely portable. Even focusing on systemd would cover large portion of Linux distributions, but you don't have to include any systemd dependencies as such. On desktop, it would allow you to move the backend into

Re: [SailfishDevel] QML Audio/MediaPlayer - help needed...

2018-02-17 Thread Lewis Rockliffe
Do you have an example of how you are playing your sounds? Are you using MediaPlayer or SoundEffect? MediaPlayer will disturb system sound where as SoundEffect wont On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Zoltán Lutor wrote: > Hi, > > I have released my native game for

Re: [SailfishDevel] Keep an application running without keeping the window open

2018-02-17 Thread Marcin Mielniczuk
I'm not sure if that's a good choice when trying to achieve portability. Usually on desktop you'd rather have a monolithic application with just minimize to tray. Any other options? On 05.02.2018 10:33, rinigus wrote: > Hi, > > the obvious solution is to run service that is 24/7 on and separate