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.

Cheers,
David


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