[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

Marco Pesenti Gritti mpgritti at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 19:16:50 EDT 2008


On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  And, of course, I
>> wanted to switch sugar to using the standard X activity startup
>> notification mechanism, and the standard desktop notification
>> mechanism.
>
> I'm not sure this is necessary. All the activities will be run by the
> shell in 0.84 and the UI feedback is in the shell. I don't think we
> need inter process communication. The only use case I can think of is
> running activities from the command line but that's minor, I don't
> even think gnome-terminal supports it.

Scratch that, I lied... I hope the freedesktop spec is flexible enough
to implement our kind of UI feedback.

Marco



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