Re: gnome yellow sticky project (projects)

[Tom Tromey <tromey creche cygnus com>]

Aldy> It would be extra cool if gnome would inform the sticky note
Aldy> program when a particular document is being accessed (is this
Aldy> done with gnome-history-recently-used or something similar??).
Aldy> This way, a whole slew of yellow stickies would pop up when a
Aldy> particular document or directory is being accessed by other
Aldy> gnome apps (a notepad program, a web browser, a word processor,
Aldy> etc).

I agree this would be cool.

I think it could easily be done by using the generic event service.

When an app opens a file, it could post an event saying "file xxx
opened" (or URL xxx).  Likewise it would post such an event when the
file is closed.  The yellow stickies program could notice such events
and use them to do the right thing.

This could partially be hidden by the recently-used code.

Tom