From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a desktop environment Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:50:01 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87aaebbndz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4DDDA5A7.6040109@siege-engine.com> <87boyp5vyi.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1306432214 3995 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2011 17:50:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 17:50:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 19:50:11 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QPehG-0005yZ-Sw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 19:50:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45622 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPehG-0002JG-IO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 13:50:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:48335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPehD-0002Hr-QT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 13:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPehB-0005rS-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 13:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:58015) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QPehB-0005on-FR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2011 13:50:05 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4QHo3pj030000 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Thu, 26 May 2011 13:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4QHo32k023294; Thu, 26 May 2011 13:50:03 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4QHo2xw012069; Thu, 26 May 2011 13:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 17D053781A7; Thu, 26 May 2011 11:50:02 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87boyp5vyi.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 26 May 2011 10:21:25 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.23 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139743 Archived-At: Ted> No, that's going the other way. I want an Emacs instance to *be* the Ted> system tray (and workspace indicator, and basically everything that Ted> makes a desktop environment except the window manager and the Ted> applications themselves). Ah. Ted> Can the system tray interface be implemented Ted> as a protocol or does it need C code? I believe tray icons still need C code, or at least some proxy; e.g., it could probably be done by embedding a bunch of PyGtk code in the elisp (my approach is hacked up version of "zenity"). In the Gnome 3 shell maybe the same effect can be had via javascript, I'm not sure. Tom