Re: [java-gnome-hackers] Tests on the 4.1 branch

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Sun, 2011-05-08 at 13:09 +0100, Mat Booth wrote:

> There is a setting in Gnome 3 called "Have file manager handle the
> desktop" which you can turn on in gnome-tweak-tool. Would that solve
> the problem?

I imagine it would, except that setting that would be a fairly invasive
change to impose on the user's configuration - especially by a test
suite! :)

The only reason we tested against Nautilus was simply because it was a
libunique process that we *knew* would be running, regardless. We just
need to find something else.

Incidentally, I remember someone looked into starting a second Java
process with libnotify there. There's nothing intrinically wrong with
that, but firing up additional processes from within a test suite is
tricky engineering.

Oh well.

I suspect this whole thing is on the wrong track anyway; in a DBus +
services on demand + GtkApplication world there are probably better
things to test. Of course, testing GtkApplication will probably amount
to the same thing, so suggestions welcome.

AfC
Sydney