Messages in this thread | | | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:55:02 +0100 |
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Hi Hans, hi LKML,
On Saturday 01 November 2003 19:45, Hans Reiser wrote: > Ingo Oeser wrote: > >2) In a out-of-the-box Linux system its getting harder and harder to find > > the issuer of a search request to do the refinement. > > > >The latter is due to heavy asynchronity of modern user interfaces. > > > >I have usally several consoles, several xterms with screen in them, > >several desktops with xterms and other programs, several X-Servers > >running, some screen sessions attached to some virtual terminals and > >some people even have multihead. > > > >Where does the refinement get sent to, without application support?
> probably looking at the DISPLAY environment variable for the relevant > process is the right answer.
It's not always passed through, since each layer only knows the relative issuer, but not the absolute one. And some systems just have a piece of memory and a semaphore for notification.
This is a bit hard. Try it experimentally to get a notification done for each leaf UI in the UI tree situation decribed above. My desktop is KDE 3.1.4, to ease your experiment.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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