Re: org.gnome.Application DBus Interface

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 01:41 +0300, Marc-Andr�ureau wrote:

> > > And quit?
> > >      <method name="Quit" />
> >
> > I did originally have a Shutdown method, but I was unable to come up
> > with any real use cases for it. If you can think of any I'd quite like
> > to hear them!
> 
> If you can start an app, let say in a script, what about closing it?
> We could still rely on signals, but that is not really well
> implemented, right? Of course, if the app run on X, then there is also
> different mechanisms. It's just an idea, for completness - but that
> might be a bad idea after all.

It would be (at least) annoying, because the app could already have been
loaded *before* the requesting program asked for it. So what you would
do is make that program ask for the app to quit when it doesn't need it
anymore ? Sounds weird.