[sugar] Supporting desktop applications, extending the EWMH spec

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti
<mpgritti at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I read the spec, it seemed sane.  Proof will be in the implementation,
though, of course.
 --scott

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