Event Notifications System

[Myles Green]

On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:20:56 +0530
Biju Chacko <botsie at xfce.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A recent post on sounds got me thinking ...
> 
> Does it make sense to have a events notification system, possibly
based 
> on DBUS? For example, each time a window is minimised or closed xfwm4 
> could publish an appropriate event notification. A sound daemon would 
> then subscribe for those events and play a sound accordingly.
Similarly, 
> xffm could publish an event everytime a mime-associated file is
opened. 
> Xfdesktop could subscribe to it and use the notifications to build a 
> "Recent File" menu. xfdesktop could also use a "workspace changed"
event 
> to display a different backdrop for each workspace.
> 
> A generic events system would be easily adaptable to many situations
...
> 
> Does this make sense?

I'm with you ;-) In addition, start-up and shut-down events would be
nice...

My only feature request for the outstanding work of art that is XFce
(currently using 4.2rc3).

Thanks!
Myles
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