Re: Linux Window Managers and Accessibility

[Daniel Pittman <daniel rimspace net>]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Bill Haneman wrote:

[...]

> I notice that John did not mention this part of the SPI
> (getPIDforIndex, getIndexForPID() ). As I noted above the mapping
> should probably be not just a PID but include host information as
> well. Perhaps a better API would be:
> 
> boolean desktop_getPIDForIndex (in short desktop, 
>                                 in long index, 
>                                 out long pid, 
>                                 out long hostIP);
> // returns false if not a member of the desktop in question
> 
> long desktop_getIndexForPID (in short desktop,
>                              in long pid, 
>                              in long hostIP);

Er, this may seem a stupid comment and all, but have you considered the
future of your software as well as the initial implementation?

The X server that I am running will happily host clients on TCP/IP -
which your API supports - as well as DECnet. Tomorrow, it will support
clients connected via IPv6...

Are you sure you want to use "long" type and "IPv4 address" as the
identifier here?

        Daniel

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