On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 02:36:40PM +0000, Sergey V. Udaltsov wrote:
> > this isn't a problem, its a feature request.
> OK. I will consider this as such. Actually, since this feature presented
> earlier I thought about it as a problem:)
I have this on my todo list, I have some fragments of code and ideas
that will make it happen at some point.
> > when gnome2 came out, the applet api changed to require applets very tightly
> I know it. I've just moved my applet to gnome2 and see all the
> difference...:)
It's actually always been a pretty invasive part of the codebase,
requiring a totally different binary, different main loop, different
command line options, and a big buttload of evil ifdefs. When GNOME2 and
GTK2 came along I advocated branching a gtk1-stable maintainance
tree, and junking all the applet and GNOME stuff from HEAD. After
volunteering to do all that deletion and work on the docklet, that's
roughly what happened.
> > as part of the core functionality, but it will also be agnostic to the
> > environment.
> Cool! How do you expect it to be agnostic and work in GNOME 2
> environment? With my humble knowledge, this seems impossible...
It's actually pretty simple - both gnome-session and KDE's session
manager (kdeinit?) just use the XSM stuff that's specced out in X11R6,
so it's all good standard fun. I think GNOME adds an extension for an
app to provide an icon for a more interactive session management
experience, but the bulk of it is totally standardised.
> Thanks for the comment.
I agree with you that Gaim should automatically register if a session
manager is present, and present the user with a preference like
'Restart Gaim at logon' rather than the user having to do anything
complex like frux with session properties.
> --
> Sergey
Regards,
Rob
Gaim's freedesktop.org compliance officer =)
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