Re: [Utopia] app event sharing

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 15:48 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> 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.
> 

that isn't the point. cd burning is being used as an example. the
problem is that apps might request a user to insert a blank cd, data cd
2-of-3, plug in a camera to import the photos, etc etc and there needs
to be a way of informing g-v-m that something else is going to habndle
the event so that g-v-m doesn't try to handle it in addition to another
app that has requested the user add the hardware device.

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
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