Re: multiscreen execing functions

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hey,

On 28 Jun 2002, jacob berkman wrote:

> 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.

	That makes sense ...
>
> isn't it deprecated now?

	No, but maybe it should be ?

Good Luck,
Mark.