Re: Dbus support

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Giorgos Logiotatidis
<seadog sealabs net> wrote:
> Oops, sorry I should have looked better! Great now dbus support it's
> there, I was thinking implementing some sort of window manager
> extension / plugin to change the hamster activity based on focused
> window. The user could create patterns (maybe regex?) to match different
> windows with the same activity (e.g. when I have a ooimpress with title
> "NoC - Openoffice.org Impress" and a gedit with title "noc.c - gedit"
> hamster should understand that I am working on NoC project).
>
> I haven't deeply though the features or the implementation of this, but
> if it get implemented in a smart way I think it can be a great feature
> of hamster.
>
> I would to hear your opinions and ideas about this proposal.

I would vote against having this kind of logic at the hamster level.
We'll be having full dbus support by 2.26 including changing the
current activity so I suppose it would be fairly easy to create a
third party tool to track active windows or briwser tabs or even
emails you read using the hamster's API. I really believe a goal like
this belongs to a separate project as we strive to keep hamster "for
the masses" as the tagline suggests.

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Patryk Zawadzki