Re: [g-a-devel]Children-changed for Desktops

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

Yes, this is definitely the right approach.  I'll work up a patch and 
submit to you and the list for approval before committing to avoid breakage 
again.

Marc

At 06:08 PM 3/18/2002 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 01:42, Marc Mulcahy wrote:
> > The commit I just made to at-spi to add "children-changed" event 
> support to
> > desktop objects is bogus.  I thought that simply emitting a
> > "children-changed" on the backing AtkObject for the desktop was right, but
> > this is broken since it only works if the ATK bridge is loaded.  I think
> > the right approach is the one I started with but scrapped because I 
> thought
> > it was overkill.  add two signals to SpiDesktop "application-added" and
> > "application-removed", and make a signal listener in the registry which
> > listens to these two signals and emits appropriate events.
>
>         There should be no need to have the atk-bridge loaded in the 
> registry -
> in fact the registry shouldn't link to Atk or Gtk+ it should be a pure
> GUI program ( in an ideal world that isn't riddled with nasty hacks for
> X keystroke mess ).
>
>         Since you have the CORBA references to all the remote guys 
> wanting that
> signal, you should just let them know yourself directly, via an explicit
> event emission.
>
>         Regards,
>
>                 Michael.
>
> --
>  mmeeks gnu org  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot