Re: [Evolution-hackers] Re: multihead support in evolution



On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 04:33, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > Note that DisplayString() is not guarranteed to be unique on the same
> > display so this hack isn't completely reliable.
> 
> 	It's pretty good; and ultimately people tend to do their DNS lookups on
> the same machine that they're launching the components on, with the
> DISPLAY inherited from b-a-s anyway so ...

Still, not reliable.

> >       * The shell and the mail component don't expect to be run multiple
> >         times on the same set of files -- so two Evolution instances
> >         running at the same time on different displays can easily cause
> >         trouble and cause ugly misbehaviors.
> 
> 	Hmm - that's more problematic,

Yes.  What you really want for Evolution is the ability to create
controls on different displays from the same Bonobo server.

-- 
Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>

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