Re: NSWorkspace launchedApplications method

[Fred Kiefer]

Hi Adam,

Adam Fedor wrote:
> Matt Rice wrote:
> > here is a patch i figure we should probably discuss,
> > it implements the launchedApplications method
>
> (Replying kind of late...)
>
> It's a bummer there has to be a deamon just for handling this. Is there 
> anyway to combine it with something else? Maybe just using gdnc to 
> spread the information around? This could be better as at least with 
> gdnc we've thought about all the problems of where information should be 
> sent (e.g. are applications "running" on the server, the client, the 
> display?...)

Matt and I did discuss this as a possible solution some time ago but 
reached the conclusion that this functionality does not belong into 
base. A new idea that came to my mind since than, is to let the normal 
mechanism of GNUstep do the work. That is an application that wants a 
list of all running GNUstep application asks GDOMAP for it and is than 
able to use each connection to an application to get its application 
information. For the later step we only need to enable the 
GSServicesManager to get the activeApplication information from its 
local NSWorkspace and export this as a method. We could also implement 
the hide other applications call in a similar way.

I am surely not able to implement this, but for Richard it shouldn't be 
to hard. Of course only if this is really a sensible solution.

Fred