Re: multiscreen execing functions

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 23:45, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Hi Jacob,
> 
> On 27 Jun 2002, jacob berkman wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2002-06-27 at 02:32, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > Hey Guys,
> > > 	In the course of doing panel and nautilus multihead support
> > > the need for some variants of the gnome-exec and gspawn functions were
> > > needed. Basically, they change the DISPLAY var of the child process so
> > > that its default screen is the one specified in the GdkScreen arg.
> > 
> > and why have the shell function?
> 
> > [ why not just extend all of the gspawn functions? ]
> 
> 	Actually, I fairly confused as to the usefulness of the
> gnome-exec methods over the gspawn ones.

gnome-exec is useful in a glib 1.2 world where there is no gspawn.

isn't it deprecated now?

 - jacob