On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:51:14PM +0100, Damir Jeli? wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:25:29PM +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > > On 11/26/2013 06:47 PM, Damir Jeli? wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 11:39:42AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> I talked to Tanu and Arun last week about my what-did-you-plugin-dialog, > > >> and got some push back about my way of popping up the dialog. > > >> > > >> So, instead, what do you think of this solution - does this provide a > > >> good separation between PulseAudio and the GUI process: > > >> > > >> * The dialog will be popped up through DBus activation. We define some > > >> DBus name, e g org.pulseaudio.WhatDidYouPlugIn - and when accessing this > > >> name, the process will be started by DBus. > > >> * There will be DBus methods for popping up and killing the dialog, and > > >> a signal back when the user selects something in the dialog (or cancels it). > > >> > > >> Second, we will create a new pulseaudio sub-project, pa_popup_dialogs or > > >> something. This will contain the current dialog (it's designed by > > >> Canonical, but it's nothing Ubuntu specific about it), and our > > >> recommended solution by upstream. If gnome, kde, or some other DE wants > > >> to write their own themed dialog, they will just install their own > > >> solution instead, which we will communicate with through the > > >> org.pulseaudio.WhatDidYouPlugIn name/interface. (I have some test code > > >> using zenity too, but that will be dropped.) > > >> > > >> Thankful for a quick ack/nak on this. > > >> > > > > > > Hi David. > > > > > > Did you take a look at the "Desktop Notifications Specification"[1]. It > > > seems to somewhat overlap with your idea. > > > > Yes, and ruled it out due to the following reasons: > > > > 1) The GSoC project that implemented this specification was never merged. > > I'm not sure if the GSoC project implemented this spec but that would be > another reason to use the code already provided and merge the GSoC > project. > > > > > 2) Unity, Ubuntu's standard shell, does not support the dialog part of > > the spec. (It is possible that the GSoC project dealt with this somehow, > > not sure.) > > > > The GSoC project has support for AppIndicator[1] (this is used in > Unity, right?), so another reason to reuse it. > Would be nice to include the link. :p [1] https://github.com/SliMM/pulseaudio/commit/b56a57ee0daf4a882f5a94e135dd40a102263046
