Re: Graceful termination again

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 Jan 2006, at 21:36, David Ayers wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald schrieb:
> > We could finish getting the NSWorkspace class to do what it was
> > originally designed to do ... provide the list of launched apps as
> > supplied by the workspace manager.  That would be a small   
> > modification
> > to NSWorkspace and to GWorkspace.  However, we would  want some  
> > fallback
> > option for if/when GWorkspace is not running.   Perhaps a minimal
> > workspace manager daemon, or perhaps NSWorkspace  could write to a  
> > small
> > database (eg a plist file in a temporary  directory) to maintain the
> > state information.  The latter has the  advantages of not  
> > requiring an
> > additional daemon to run (I have no  problem with daemons, but I know
> > many people have objections to them)  and is persistent if the  
> > workspace
> > manager is restarted (we need  that).  The former has the advantages
> > that it would provide a testbed  and reference implementation for
> > workspace managers.  I suppose we  could do both.
>
> I could very well be missing something obvious but I seems to me that
> gdnc would be a good candidate to provide this service.

If we want to put the functionality into an existing daemon, I think  
gpbs would be the best option, as it is part of the gui/back  
libraries (ie related to applications) while gdnc provides a service  
for the base library.

However, if we want to provide a reference implementation that  
developers of workspace managers can look at, I think a standalone  
process would be better than attaching the functionality to an  
existing daemon... and if we don't want to do that, my preference  
would be not to bother at all ... just use an on-disk database of   
the information we need, and modify GWorkspace as our standard  
workspace manager.