4.4.1:session client cleanup

Danny Milosavljevic danny_milo at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 6 00:35:28 CET 2007


Hi,

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:02:05 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
>> [snip]
>> This is a huge change in terms of number of lines, but it doesn't change anything at all in terms of existing functionality.
>> 
>> Then again, it fixes point 2 and 3. (Point 1 is unfixable in principle)
>> 
>> What do you think?
> 
> Danny, sorry, but that makes the session client code even worse. 

Yeah, I kinda thought so.

> You add all the complexity of the really stupid XSM protocol to the session
> client interface. Please consider using ExoXsessionClient or use a small
> custom piece of code, like ThunarSession does. You can also check
> EggSessionClient.

I don't really use session management myself, but maybe I'll add something like this to pyxfce and ruby-xfce4. We'll see.

> In either case, this particular piece of code in libxfcegui4 is fine as
> it is until we come up with a better session client class (which will
> happen at the time xfce4-session is rewritten, so don't hold your
> breath...).

hehe... ok :-)

cheers,
   Danny




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