Re: Help System Spec 0.2

2007-01-17 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:23, karderio wrote: On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 16:57 +0100, Cornelius Schumacher wrote: On Saturday 25 November 2006 17:39, Don Scorgie wrote: * Remove the help: URI section. It causes confusion and is inextensible (installing a package in /opt with the docpath

Re: Help System Spec 0.2

2006-12-28 Thread Thiago Macieira
Bastian, Waldo wrote: That's what dbus does already, so maybe the thing that's needed is a way to delegate service activation from the dbus daeon to other clients. That's exactly what Aaron and I ended up discussing and concluding. I'll be sending a proposal to the D-Bus mailing list with the

Re: Help System Spec 0.2

2006-12-27 Thread Cornelius Schumacher
On Saturday 25 November 2006 17:39, Don Scorgie wrote: I've put up a new version (0.2) for viewing / download at: (html) http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/help-spec-0-2.html (docbook xml) http://www.gnome.org/~dscorgie/help-spec-0.2.xml This already looks quite good. It seems we are finally

Re: Help System Spec 0.2

2006-12-27 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 8:57, Cornelius Schumacher wrote: One question, though: Is D-Bus able to start the help browser on demand when a call is made to the API or is it needed that the help browser is already running (providing it is the help browser implementing the API)? d-bus

Re: Help System Spec 0.2

2006-12-27 Thread Thiago Macieira
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: One question, though: Is D-Bus able to start the help browser on demand when a call is made to the API or is it needed that the help browser is already running (providing it is the help browser implementing the API)? d-bus supports activation-on-call[1]. the challenge

Re: Help System Spec 0.2

2006-12-27 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 13:14, Thiago Macieira wrote: If a service is desktop-dependent, the desktop should acquire the service when it starts up. It makes more sense to me than creating a program or script that detects the desktop and spawns the correct desktop-dependent service.

RE: Help System Spec 0.2

2006-12-27 Thread Bastian, Waldo
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 13:14, Thiago Macieira wrote: If a service is desktop-dependent, the desktop should acquire the service when it starts up. It makes more sense to me than creating a program or script that detects the desktop and spawns the correct desktop-dependent service.