Re: GDBus support on Win32 + other platforms (Was Re: GtkApplication and argc/arv)

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tristan Van Berkom
<tristanvb openismus com> wrote:

> a.) GtkApplication only available as GtkX11Application is acceptable,
>     because people only expect it to work on x11 (the actual stubs
>     should in this case only be created on x11 and the docs should
>     mention that it an x11-only object).
>
> b.) GtkApplication as a public and clearly cross-platform API that
>     has a fallback that runs the main loop is acceptable, win32
>     apps that adopt early will benefit from single instance and
>     other details once the win32 backend for GtkApplication is
>     created.

for quartz, there are a specific set of interactions with launch
services that would be very desirable to have integrated into
GtkApplication. right now, these are implemented in an "add-on" code
blob ("ige-mac-menu"), and/or as additional code in specific
applications. it would be sad to give up on the idea of these being
subsumed into GtkApplication. there is likely other integration with
the os x desktop that could be usefully done too.