Re: State across application invocation

[James Willcox <jwillcox cs indiana edu>]

On Sat, 2002-08-10 at 15:03, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> hi all,
> Isn't recent files handled by the new gnome-recent library being
> developed in GNOME CVS?
> http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/rview.cgi?cvsroot=/cvs/gnome&dir=gnome-recent
> 
> And as for coordination with other projects I think that should only be
> done when it is clear that such coordination is reasonable feasible. Not
> implementing feature X for 2 years due to waiting to get everyone to
> agree is only shooting ourselves in the foot. I think the vfolder
> standard is a good example on how to do it. Write a specification and
> send it to XDG list and if people like it (after some
> input/modifications of course), then great; if not then we still have
> the new functionality ourselves and it can not be said we didn't try.
> 
<snip>

Yeah, I've been working on this for a while.  Actually, I sent a
proposed specification to the xdg-list some time ago
(https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-July/000574.html). 
I have been quietly hacking on a new version which uses an XML document
instead of a flat file for storage, and uses a property on the root
window for notification.  I just committed the last of it to
gnome-recent last night, and I am working on updating the spec now. 
Getting other desktops to accept this would be great, however, I am far
more concerned with getting it integrated into GNOME right now.

Thanks,
James