Re: [Utopia] app event sharing

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:17 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:00 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> So why not use the locking framework for this?  Just expand it to other
> devices.  For instance, if Banche doesn't want to handle cd-burning
> unless the user has selected "burn a cd" it can obtain the lock only
> when the user has first requested it.  Alternatively we could also
> expand it so running apps can register with HAL (much like obtaining the
> lock) that they can handle a certain function (like cd burning) and gvm
> will pop that up as the default action.  With notifications this can all
> be done unobtrusively and avoids the problem of wanting to burn a data
> cd when Banshee is running.  

ok, I misunderstood. this might be a solution afterall :)

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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