detection if applet is running

[Andriy Rysin]

On 10/28/2011 09:20 AM, Ruurd Pels wrote:
> On Thursday 27 October 2011 23:35:52 Andriy Rysin wrote:
>
>> 2) make keyboard layout applet exposes some dbus to make it detectable
>> when running (feels a bit too "heavy")
> Yes. Better. Why does it feel heavy? I'd venture the thought that doing so
> could expose the keybaord layout applet in such a way that it also could do
> something usefull (like changing layouts for example :-) )
We already have that dbus API in keyboard kded daemon
Adding dbus API to applet just to tell if it is running seems wrong to 
me it feels like this belongs to parent or container
Imagine if to check that app is running in Linux you have to add some 
code to each app :)