Re: [GOK] gok and gnome 3.0

[Gerd Kohlberger <lowfi chello at>]

Hi,

Ben Konrath wrote:
> 2) How are we going to deal with integrating with gnome-shell?
>
> Currently GOK cannot interact with the Overview mode of gnome-shell.
> When gnome-shell becomes the default, users will not be able to access
> any actions in the Activities menu (launch programs, access Places, use
> recent files, use Workspaces etc). Obviously this is a major problem.
>
> I think the solution for this is to somehow have a gok presentation
> layer within gnome-shell. I hacked up a dirty mock-up so that people can
> get an idea of what I'm thinking about:
>
> http://bagu.org/scratch/gok-in-gnome-shell.png
>
> When the user selects the workspace, gok would remain as a permanent
> dock at the bottom of the screen like this:
>
> http://bagu.org/scratch/gok-in-gnome-shell-2.png
>
> I don't know much about how gnome-shell works yet, so I'm not sure how
> Python or C gok would communicate with the gok presentation layer in
> gnome-shell. Or even how the gnome-shell gok presentation layer would
> transition to Python or C gok in the workspace. This area needs more
> exploration and is an open question for me.

Maybe the at-spi login-helper interface could be used for this? Clients 
would announce their window id's to gnome-shell and it would either 
raise the windows or provide a layer in the Activities view for them.

cheers,
Gerd