Event Notifications System

[Benedikt Meurer]

Biju Chacko wrote:
> Hi,

Hey Botsie,

> 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?

Probably for 4.4, but lets release 4.2 first. ;-)

> -- b

Benedikt