Re: gnome desktop integration library

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Well, I'd love to not to see this reimplemented in every application
> that tries to simply inhibit the screensaver. See:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305688
>
> Why would I need to reimplement this on X/GNOME, MacOS X, and Windows
> myself, when other applications that do "presentations" would need the
> same APIs?

Another option is to do a smallish cross-platform library called 
"libdesktop" or something like that - defined as a library that provides 
access to general-interest nongraphical runtime facilities of the 
desktop environment hosting the application.

it might contain "GdkSession", and maybe a simple prefs API similar to 
the Java one, with GConf and the registry as two backends. It could even 
contain a very primitive vfs abstraction, though I think it'd be kind of 
dangerous to go down that road.

App developers would love to have that library.

Personally I think GTK+ should contain it (maybe in a separate .so from 
libgtk proper even, I don't know). But, failing that, it's a bounded and 
useful definition for a separate library.

Hey, is this "Portland"? ;-)

Havoc