Re: gnome yellow sticky project (projects)

[Aldy Hernandez <aldy abulafia uaa edu>]

Tom Tromey <tromey@creche.cygnus.com> writes:

> 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.

Perfect.  This is exactly what I want.  Is this the job of CORBA, the
main Gnome API or what?  How do I trap such events?  Where do I start?

Aldy