Re: ANN: GWorkspace 0.6.5

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2004-06-06 02:46:15 +0200 Chad Hardin <cehardin@mac.com> wrote:

> On Jun 5, 2004, at 2:16 PM, Michael Baehr wrote:
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> Perhaps another daemon is needed to keep track of which apps are running, I 
> think that this daemon would end up fulfilling the actual roles of each 
> application's NSWorkspace object; NSWorkspace would then become a proxy for 
> this daemon.  Such a daemon would have to be very simple and straightforward 
> to minimize bugs and crashing.
>
>
> Comments?

Yes. :o) That functionality should be incorporated in something like 'user 
session daemon' which can provide more than a list of running applications. The 
daemon should have a persistent memory, for example a file, and it should be 
restartable in case of crash. Included responsibilities should be sesion 
management, including sending appropriate notifications to all runing 
applications and saving/restoring a session.

On some systems, this daemon can be combined with functionality like status 
bar, or perhaps menu. Or those things can go to other daemon.

Stefan