Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org> writes:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc gnome org> wrote:One important thing is that preview providers should be out of process, since unfortunately it's very easy to make things crash with buggy files (which are very common). That could be done by every provider, but if we force that at a higher level it would be much better. That would also ensure that preview providers don't block the UI main thread, assuming the communication with the provider processes will be always asynchronous unconditionally.I ultimately agree, and I wrote a paragraph to that effect in my proposal... It's tricky to enforce this in the library, because it effectively means inventing a way for a process to draw into another process that doesn't look like libbonobo, and I didn't really want to go that path...
I'm assuming the providers will render the contents into surfaces that the previewer will compose, not providers directly drawing into the previewer. We can share the bitmaps between processes without using anything like CORBA, simply using shared memory and sending the file descriptor with dbus. Note that providers might not be asynchronous, or thread safe.
Cosimo
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