On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:52 +0000, Alex Jones wrote: > Hi list > > I'm starting to hack on a little utility that sits on the session bus > emitting signals to alert any interested applications of session > presence updates. The idea is that all applications that are interested > in doing magic things when the user is "away", etc., no longer need to > have their own code for dealing with it, and that the user does not have > to set themselves as "Gone to the shops" in more than one application > (IM clients being the obvious case). I assume that by Presence Updates you mean that the presence of the user at the Desktop instead the IM. Correct me if Im wrong.
Looks like a great idea for apps to listen to such signals. Based on these, stuffs like lazy/offline caching can be triggered. -Srini. > > My idea is to take the simple concept of the Gossip status icon and put > it into this new app. Of course, this isn't the only way to set status, > as any app on the session bus can manipulate it. This includes cases > such as Metacity, which could temporarily set the status to Busy when > running a full-screen application (of course this would be configurable > via Metacity's own options). > > Perhaps one day, the functionality of this application could be merged > into GNOME Session or something. > > Does anybody have any comments on this idea? Does anybody see anything > negative about this approach? > > Thanks for reading! _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list