Re: Yay! A new progress report on RANDR!

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le mardi 03 juillet 2007, à 11:03 +0100, Pascal Schoenhardt a écrit :
> I am also trying to make some decisions on how this will be
> implemented. Maybe I can get some suggestions here too. The idea is
> that this project will consist of 1) the capplet, and 2) An optional
> tray icon which provides quick access to resolutions and cloning
> options. Here's my question:

No tray icon for this please: in this case, an applet is really what
makes sense.

> When a monitor is added or removed, the computer should react
> automatically. This means that some process will need to subscribe to
> signals from xrandr.

Yes. The most important things here are nautilus and the panel, I guess.
Do you plan to work on them?

> Also, to allow hotkeys for profiles, something
> will need to monitor those too. Is there a preferred/standard way to
> do hot-keys in gnome, which doesn't involve having a daemon running at
> all times? Or is it maybe worthwhile to run a daemon, for both of the
> reasons above, and to act as the backend for both the tray icon and
> the capplet? If so, should the daemon, capplet, and tray icon be
> seperate programs communicating by dbus, or all part of the daemon?

I believe there's some work to make keybinding registration easy.
Bastien should know. I don't think having a separate daemon makes sense.
gnome-settings-daemon would be the best place for this (you guessed this
right).

Vincent

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