Re: Emacs and the Status Notification Specification

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 11:00:44 -0600 Tom Tromey <address@hidden> wrote: 

Tom> Attached are 2 files to implement the spec for Emacs:
Tom> * status.el, the basic implementation

Tom> ... which is kind of broken, so I won't be installing it quite yet.

Ted> This is somewhat related to the emacs-panel work I'm doing.  I propose
Ted> we either make a emacs-desktop ELPA package (on the GNU ELPA or
Ted> somewhere else) or we make a lisp/desktop/ directory in Emacs.  My
Ted> preference is for the former, so it can be used in XEmacs and in older
Ted> Emacs versions, and so its development is decoupled from the Emacs
Ted> releases.

Tom> I'm not sure this will work.  This code uses some later dbus methods; I
Tom> had to upgrade to 24 to get it working.

My point is that if it's an ELPA package, it can be easily used
(installed+activated) from XEmacs.  I don't mean we will write
specifically for XEmacs; the XEmacs users can submit patches and
improvements as needed.  Sorry if that was not clear.

Tom> I am fine with a GNU ELPA package.
Tom> I will try to do that once I've debugged the other problems.
Tom> Or, if you still want a unified package -- first, why? -- and second,
Tom> perhaps you could set it up.

It would make sense to have a meta-package that includes my stuff and
yours.

I think we'll end up with a common library, there are functions we will
both need.  But for now we can start with your package as a standalone
entity and I'll steal from it ;)

Thanks
Ted