Re: GUnique [Was: gnome-utils branched for GNOME 2.16]

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

Hi, list

As an alternative to GUnique, you could do the kind of thing Maemo does
just by using D-Bus.

http://live.gnome.org/DesktopAppsAsDBusServices

(Crappy write-up, but I just haven't had time to sort it out. Sorry!)

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 16:07 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 13:47 +0200, Marco Barisione wrote:
> > Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> 
> > >> On Windows AF_UNIX is not available, but Windows has named pipes that 
> > >> are more similar to sockets than to Unix named pipes. However only the 
> > >> client part of named pipes is supported on Windows 9x/Me.
> > > 
> > > Single instance applications on Windows NT/XP use the named mutex
> > > pattern[1], to which we can provide a nice wrapper using GUnique I
> > > think.
> > 
> > I know but GUniqueApp requires communication between the "server" and 
> > the "client", using named mutex you can't communicate.
> 
> Mmmh, right.
> 
> > > I think we can use a platform-based approach:
> > > 
> > >   * D-Bus, Xlibs and bacon on *nix on a soft dependency basis;
> > >   * bacon on OS X;
> > >   * named mutex and bacon on win32.
> > 
> > Bacon on win32?
> 
> With modification for using sockets on win32 instead of a named pipe.
> 
> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
> 
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Alex Jones <alex weej com>