Revisiting uiserver

[Robert Knight]

> Have you considered just making the whole view just html?  Then apps
> can have their view however they want, and it will be easy to change
> things.

It would be nice to add some pretty effects to this dialog for KDE 4 -
this might be difficult with HTML, as well as being able to have a
mixture of controls and messages.  Would it be possible to use .ui
files associated with the application to provide the "More..." section
shown in the kde-look mockup?

>  the app should check if the jobId of the signal matches any
> jobId that the app launched.

Sounds reasonable as a simple solution.

On another note, I saw a Gnome Summer of Code 2006 project which aimed
to build a similar "long running task manager", which also operated
over DBus.  Would it be possible for uiserver and the Gnome equivalent
to cooperate?  The idea being that tasks in Gnome applications could
show up in uiserver and tasks in KDE applications could show up in
Gnome's long running task manager.

http://tw.apinc.org/weblog/tag/mathusalem

On 17/12/06, John Tapsell <johnflux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Rafael,
>
>   This is one of my favorite projects :-)
>
>   Have you considered just making the whole view just html?  Then apps
> can have their view however they want, and it will be easy to change
> things.  That way apps can have links to cancel the burn, cancel the
> print, open the print dialog etc, and can have javascript to do
> anything else.
>
>   We can use CSS to set the colors and fonts etc so it will all be consistent.
>
> JohnFlux
>