Re: Graceful termination again

[Enrico Sersale]

On 2006-01-23 12:54:01 +0200 Chris B. Vetter <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 1/23/06, Roman Belenov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I hacked a bit trying to implement logoff with graceful application
> > termination on GNUstep and got some questions:
> [...]
>
> The way I see it would be sending a
> NSWorkspaceWillPowerOffNotification when "Logout" (or similar) is
> clicked to the Workspace / Desktop / Window Manager.
>
> The Manager would then use -launchedApplications to send each
> application a terminate message.
>
> Problem is that there currently is no 'real' GNUstep-based XY Manager
> that implements the above. This could be "fixed" if (for example)
> GWorkspace could also act as a window manager, to replace the 'need'
> of Window Maker.
> --
> Chris

Having GWorkspace acting also as a window manager would mean too much work :-)
But you are right when you say that a "logout" notification should come from 
the window manager; at http://www.gnustep.it/enrico/wmaker.tar.gz
there is a hacked WindowMaker that builds as a GNUstep application; wmaker.tar.gz 
contains the "src" directory of WindowMaker 0.92 with a GNUmakefile and two 
added files, WMApp.h and WMApp.m.
In WMApp.m there is the implementation of a very simple class that, in 
-applicationWillFinishLaunching: adds the file descriptor returned by 
XConnectionNumber() to the run loop and, in receivedEvent::::, sends the XEvent 
to the normal WindowMaker function. Nothing else. But, being a real 
application, WMaker.app could send notifications, communicate with other apps, 
etc..
This is only an experiment but, if somebody would be interested in working at 
it, I think that WMaker.app could become the GNUstep window manager. This is a 
project that should not be very difficult to maintain; if, for the moment, we 
want only to send some notifications, the work should consist only in writing a 
better configure script and, when a new WindowMaker will be released, updating 
our sources (that are only a little part of all the WindowMaker sources, I want 
to remember).