[g-a-devel]Re: Application addition and removal

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> 
> Yes, I thought of this, but I don't think... that desktops have a pointer
> to their registry, so there didn't seem to be a non-hackish way to do it
> this way.  Maybe there's a better way to do this, and if someone has a
> preferrable approach, I can change it.
> 
> Maybe the right approach is to give each desktop a pointer to its registry
> and then just emit the event notifications directly...

Remember that the desktops always live in the registry's
process space.  Therefore all we need is either a method:

emit_desktop_child_changed ()

or a method:

get_default_registry () 

I think we might already have the latter.

-Bill

> Marc