Re: galf once more: application launch feedback

[Peter Åstrand <astrand lysator liu se>]

> X is certainly the easiest way to handle remote apps, since
> you know the set of apps that can be launched on this display is the
> set of apps that you can properly provide feedback for. CORBA may
> encounter firewall settings, etc. that the X connection does not.

Agree.

> Really this whole thread and the feedback mechanism should be
> discussed on xdg-list freedesktop org though (before it was on
> wm-spec-list, which was slightly off but still better than
> gnome-hackers).

Ok, lets move it.

> Whatever mechanism needs to be acceptable to at minimum the Qt people
> to add to Qt. So, I'm guessing that rules out CORBA from the start.  I
> don't think the wm-spec-list thread was considering CORBA for that
> reason.
>
> This is a trivial problem. It does not need a sledgehammer, and the

No one has proposed using CORBA in the toolkit, this would be really
crazy.  Marys prototype only used CORBA between the launch wrapper and the
central feedback server.

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/Peter Åstrand <astrand lysator liu se>