Re: [Utopia] app event sharing

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 15:40 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> Mr. Love and I just duiscussed this a little here in our spacious Novell
> Cubicles and the most plausable diea we came up with was to have
> applications register with dbus saying "I can handle cd burning". G-V-M
> would then query to see if any apps were running/registered as being
> able to handle burning cds, if so - do nothing and let the app handle
> the event itself, else give the prompt.
> 
> It's not perfect in that the user could be running Banshee but want to
> burn a data cd using nautilus-cd-burning (which isn't yet running), but
> at least it eliminates some confusion.

We already have a lock in HAL to do this for cd burners.

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp redhat com>