Re: Building multiple backends on on same system

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> I have mostly taken care of GdkDragContext, GdkVisual and GdkDevice now.
> Some of the remaining pieces look more like candidates for dropping/cleanup
> instead of virtualization though:
>
>> gdk_spawn_command_line_on_screen
>> gdk_spawn_on_screen
>> gdk_spawn_on_screen_with_pipes
>
> Looking over the backends, only X11 has anything that is not a 100%
> direct mapping to g_spawn apis, and even that is only setting DISPLAY
> to a value returned by
> gdk_screen_make_display_name(). We could just make this backend-specific.
>
> I think the same goes for the various apis related to foreign windows:
> It would seem much more natural to me to move those to be
> backend-specific.
>

One more question I had forgotten to add here:

What about GdkDisplayManager ? How does that relate to GdkBackend in
your plans ?