Re: NSWorkspace launchedApplications method

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi,

I'm moving it into the discuss thread.

On 2003-06-17 04:30:25 +0200 Adam Fedor <fedor@doc.com> wrote:

> Matt Rice wrote:
> > here is a patch i figure we should probably discuss,
> > it implements the launchedApplications method
>
> (Replying kind of late...)
>
> It's a bummer there has to be a deamon just for handling this. Is there anyway to combine 
> it with something else? Maybe just using gdnc to spread the information around? This 
> could be better as at least with gdnc we've thought about all the problems of where 
> information should be sent (e.g. are applications "running" on the server, the 
> client, the display?...)

Well, this and many other unimplemented or wrongly working stuff in NSWorkspace 
and -gui is The Reason for either:
1. Integrate Worskpace.app into gnustep and make it implement the real 
functionality of NSWorkspace class
or
2. Create workspace daemon with all NSWorkspace functionality and NSWorkspace 
notification center. Make Workspace.app be a graphical wrapper around this 
daemon/DO server.

AFAIK, application launch/terminate/... notifications are handled in each app, 
which is not good (as any other NSWorkspace notification handling in apps). We 
can end up very easily in inconsistent state. This is why we need centralised 
worskpace thing (server/daemon/DO server).

From this is obvious, that GNUstep is not just a set of libraries and programs, 
but Integrated (Development) Environment composed of 'live objects' aka servers 
and 'passive classes' aka frameworks. Well, -base can be considered as separate 
ramework, however -gui is no more just a framework. It cannot exist without 
supporting processes and resources. Same for applications. Each part of the 
enviornment is like human organ - organ cannot live without the body and body 
cannot live without the organ.

Stefan Urbanek