[Telepathy] A 'now-running' interface for Rhythmbox, games and Empathy

[Guillaume Desmottes]

Le vendredi 18 septembre 2009 à 11:34 +0100, Will Thompson a écrit :
> Resurrecting an ancient thread: this came up again recently, and I
> thought it worth recording a suggestion.
> 
> Alban Crequy wrote:
> > == Telepathy spec ==
> >
> > Mission Control can then merge Client's Channel
> > Classes which can be published as Now-Running and call a
> > SetSelfNowRunning on the CM.
> 
> We wouldn't need new API for this: we could define a handler capability
> token—"org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.Handler/running", say—which MC
> could add to the Handler's Capabilities property and call
> UpdateCapabilities() for that client. The spec already allows for this:
> Handler_Capabilities.Capabilities is only documented to *usually* be a
> copy of the client's Capabilities property. :-)
> 
> For bonus points, clients that always want to claim to be running, even
> if they're not, could specify this token themselves.
> 
> Crack? Or good crack?

Yeah but as pointed during our discussion, this doesn't allow us to know
if Alice is running Rhythmbox as GetContactCapabilities() doesn't return
tokens.


	G.