Re: [NSWorkspace launchedApplications] issue

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 8/1/07, Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as the name implies launchedApplications is supposed to return only
> launched applications. On MacOSX this works as expected. Under GNUstep
> (also with the latest release) I get the full set of installed
> applications (whether they are running or not).
>
> Is there a workaround for this bug? Is see that determining this list
> is no easy task since it requires some kind of registration mechanism.
> What's the current approach in GNUstep for doing that?
>
> I just found some GSDock sources that work ok on MacOSX but not at all
> under GNUstep, mainly because GSDock is based on this
> launchedApplications method of NSWorkspace which seems to be broken in
> GNUstep.

  It does not work reliablely,
  especially when an application crash.
  That's why in AZDock, we cannot use it to track running GNUstep application.
  Well, you can file a bug to GNUstep.

  Yen-Ju

>
> Hints are greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
>    Andreas
>
>
>
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