question re: xfdesktop 4.4.1

[Jason Keltz]

On 05/16/07 12:51, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 12:43:06 -0400 Jason Keltz wrote:
> 
>> If I want to be able to display file/launcher icons on the desktop, is 
>> dbus required?  Is dbus required for anything else in xfce?   Exactly 
>> what dbus components do I need to compile?
> 
> D-Bus is required, yes.  You need dbus and dbus-glib.  (Pre 0.90-ish
> versions of dbus had both in the same package.)  I don't think anything
> else in Xfce *requires* D-Bus, but Thunar, Terminal, the Verve plugin,
> and probably other stuff can make use of it if it's there.

Does dbus require one daemon per machine, and then another daemon for 
every user?
If you are not running dbus as a daemon, but the files are available to 
users, can they still take advantage of dbus (by starting their own?)
(I have concerns about dbus security since I don't know that much about 
it, and also don't really want to run dbus as a daemon on every machine 
at startup when only a portion of the users will use xfce and hence 
require dbus..)

>> Since the "Desktop Preferences" is supposed to list "minimized 
>> applications" OR "file/launcher icons", what happens if you choose 
>> file/launcher icons and then minimize an application?
> 
> The application gets minimised.  It just isn't shown on the desktop.
> If you want to know about them, you'll need to use a taskbar, iconbox,
> or the desktop's middle-click window menu.

Just out of curiosity, why can't you have the best of both worlds?

Jason.