xfrun4 + dbus

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jani Monoses wrote:
>> Interface: org.xfce.RunDialog
>> =============================
>>
>> This would be implemented by the file managers (or whatever other
>> application) and xfrun4 would just invoke OpenDialog(), falling back to
>> a simple(!) run dialog if no service is registered. This way the "Run
>> Application" dialog will appear instantly in the future (I doubt that
>> time permits us to implement this properly in Thunar/Xffm, but
>> nevertheless we can change xfrun4, so all we need to do afterwards is to
>> change Thunar/Xffm, and people won't have to wait for Xfce 4.6).
>>
>>   /* Requests to display the run dialog using the specified
>>    * working_directory as base directory for applications run
>>    * from the dialog.
>>    */
>>   VOID OpenDialog (STRING working_directory)
>>   VOID OpenDialogOnDisplay (STRING working_directory, STRING display)
>>
> 
> Attached is a patch to xfrun4 which first checks if this service is
> provided on the session D-BUS and if so calls OpenDialog("") on it.
> Otherwise it falls back to current behavior.
> 
> The attached python script when launched provides this interface, to
> test the latency of such a remote launch would be. The dialog is just
> two ugly buttons but that's not important.
> 
> thoughts?

Looks good at first sight. I'd add service activation too. And I think
I'd be better to rewrite xfrun4 from scratch with only a very simple
fallback (without any goodies, just make sure it's fast).

> thanks
> Jani

Benedikt