Re: Graceful termination again

[David Ayers]

Enrico Sersale schrieb:

> Perhaps some of the older gnusteppers remember this:
> 
> "The Zen of no UI
>   Why don't we just write a GNU-DO based WorkspaceMaster which could
> perform all the necessary tasks like copying files, killing apps,
> checking for removable media etc. pp. and then just use the NSWorkspace
> class plus some new notifications to handle the workspace task?"
> 
> In other words: I want to re-propose a "workspace" daemon that
> implements all the NSWorkspace methods that imply distributed
> information, leaving all the other things to the normal NSWorkspace
> instance.
> With this solution, the need of the _workspaceApplication method would
> remain, but only for those (one or two) methods that require user
> interaction for confirmation or in case of error as
> -performFileOperation:::::. The daemon could anyway have a default
> implementation that, or does nothing, or perform the operation without
> asking the user.
> 
> Moreover, I think that it can be written very easily copying from the
> gdnc and GWorkspace sources.

FWIW...  I think this approach has a lot of merit.

Cheers,
David