MCS design proposal

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:02:40 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:32:49 +0100, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>
> > The MCS daemon should probably also listen to XSETTINGS events. I
> > have no experiences with XSETTINGS, so I'm not exactly sure how
> > this would work though.
>
> No, I disagree here.  The MCS daemon should be able to proxy requests
> for special XSETTINGS settings (like UI theme, icon theme, etc.), but
> the XSETTINGS daemon should be a separate daemon.

To be honest, I've never heard of XSETTINGS before it was mentioned
here on the list.

> Otherwise, your proposal is more or less exactly what I was thinking
> of.  The data store needs a bit of fleshing out, though, and we might
> want to add D-Bus API methods for some more complicated things
> (transactions?  useful?), but this is a good start.

What kind of things are you thinking of?

  - Jannis
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