On Nov 14, 2007 2:06 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 14/11/2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm just curious why "It is not guaranteed that the session property > > will actually be used" as stated on > > http://xesam.org/main/XesamSearchLive#SetProperty . > > This was to allow backends to fx. not do live searches. > > An alternative solution is to allow the search engine to throw an exception > on, legal, but unsupported property values. However the client side can > emulate this itself by comparing the value passed to SetProperty with the > value it returns.
Since it seems that there's nothing on the standard that requires the client to actually report such an incidence (non-matching property values), I think the alternate solution you mention (server-side exception) is better. > If you have any problems with this behavior you are very welcome to air them > on the xdg list on freedesktop.org. Otherwise it is also fine if you just > ping me, I can also forward to other parties if there are things that need > to be addressed before 1.0 freeze. Have copied the reply to that list. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
