Re: [rox-devel] Pinboard & the background... again

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 02:49:11PM +0200, Christopher Arndt wrote:
> Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> schrieb am 17.06.02 14:16:05:
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> > But, this is an overly complicated way of doing it. Much simpler:
> 
> Right, but maybe one wants to run the random image chooser manually from
> time to time.

That's no problem. Click on the backdrop app and it will run again
(sending the SOAP message as before). The backdrop setter already has to
cope with being run by the filer, so there's no added complexity...

> > 1. Run random image chooser once.
> > 2. Image chooser becomes backdrop handler via SOAP message.
> > 3. Filer runs chooser, which selects a random image.
> > 
> > This is actually easier than the original method, because there's no
> > messing around with Login scripts anywhere :-)
> 
> It would be even easier, when steps 2 and 3 were combined, i.e. become
> backdrop app and tell image filename at the same time (via SOAP).

All apps have to cope with being called by the filer, so having three
messages (set-app, set-backdrop and set-both) is just extra work. This
way, if your app works once, it will still work at the next login...


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