RE: hiding gnome-panel using bonobo

["Manikandan Thangavelu" <mthangavelu in rm com>]

I am developing an Xwindow application in which I want to lock down the
user i.e.the user should not be able to switch to another application
once he/she has started our application until he/she quits our
application.The plan right now is to block the shortcut keys and hide
the panel wich are the means to switch to another aplication.Blocking
the shortcut keys is almost over and need to hide the panel.
Any way for this?

Thanks and Regards,
Manikandan T

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan McDougall [mailto:NQG24419 nifty com] 
Sent: 29 March 2005 12:20
To: Manikandan Thangavelu
Cc: Nickolay V. Shmyrev; Gnome Development
Subject: RE: hiding gnome-panel using bonobo

On Tue, 2005-29-03 at 11:47 +0530, Manikandan Thangavelu wrote:
> 
> Thanks for your answer. KDE has got DCOP for interprocess
communication and there is a method called Hide provided for the panel
there which we can call to hide the panel. Is any similar mechanism
available for gnome-panel?
> 
> Thanks in Advance,
> Manikandan T
> 

The Gnome equivalent of DCOP (and hopefully someday KDE too) is a
freedesktop standard called DBus, which is heavily based on DCOP. As for
your actual questions, I'm not sure if gnome-panel exports a DBus
service, probably not since its overdue for an overhaul someday.

Can you tell us why you want to hide the panel? Maybe there's another
way?

Cheers,
Ryan
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