On Mon 17 Mar 2003, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On 17 Mar 2003 10:27:18 +0100 Cristalle Azundris Sabon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> babbled:
>
> > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > my eventual plans are to have the desktop background managed by a
> > > separate process to e - evidence would be one, or any other you want
> > > to put there that works with e.
> >
> > I think that was just about everybody's plan, really, with the sole
> > reason for it not having been implemented yet being that we've never
> > sat down and defined the IPC between the background-handler and its
> > clients?
>
> well i looked at it more as being just a shared canvas and the file manager is
> just "yet another client" using the shared desktop canvas... :) how to share i'm
> still tossing around. you may have noticed ecore gaining ipc and tcp/ip wrappers
> of late... :) i'm not putting anything in stone right now, but i'm building a
> comprehensive set of tools/code that can/will be used... it's just the details
> of how exactly.. but the way i have it planned it isnt that relevant as we can
> just expand the protocol as things move on with more calls etc. as long as the
> basic design is right.. and i'm pretty sure i have that idea well thought out.
> though this will be on hold till i do some ebits work first :)
>
This is actually one of the planned features for Entrance as well - a
shared canvas based on IPC or some similar mechanism that will allow
plugins to operate. This would probably be made easier if there was some
sort of "canvas server" library (with the appropriate protection
features). This is put off for the not-so-near future though, and the
priority at the moment is actually to migrate to the new ecore as soon as
it is finished (meaning others have started to migrate to it!) :p
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