Re: Desktop Session Presence Manager

[Brian Nitz <Brian Nitz Sun COM>]

I was thinking about when you might want use this.   Let's say you're 
inside a tight loop in an applet or gdesklet and you want to check if 
anyone is watching before you do the last bit of graphics scaling, 3D 
blending, shading and anti-aliasing before updating the screen every 50 
microseconds ;-)  Which would be faster, asking the galaga service to 
ask if I'm here or check a presence gconf key (presumably set by galaga)?

Alan wrote:
> > Galaga does seem to have what it takes, but if it doesn't quite meet 
> > Alex's needs, I'd suggest extending Galaga rather than reinventing the 
> > wheel.  I looked at Galaga a few months ago when I was considering how 
> >     
>
> Might want to rename it too before Namco get upset and send rude
> letters...
>   
Dig Doug, Pac-Person or Soul Wedge? ;-)
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