- add G_VARIANT_TYPE_BYTESTRING, _BYTESTRING_ARRAY, _STRING_ARRAY
- remove g_variant_{new,get}_byte_array functions
- add g_variant_{new,get,dup}_bytestring{,_array} functions
- remove undocumented support for deserialising arrays of objectpaths
or signature strngs using g_variant_get_strv()
- add and document new format strings '^ay', '^&ay', '^aay' and '^a&ay'
- update GApplication to use the new API
- update GSettings binding code to use the new API
- add tests
Like how we're handling activation, use GVariant for timestamps. To
avoid polluting the GtkApplication API with GVariants, we rename the
GApplication signals to "quit-with-data" and "action-with-data".
GtkApplication will then wrap those as just "quit" and "action".
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621002
Create a function run_with_application that both ensures the
app is running exactly while the test is running, which most
of the tests use. We start it beforehand, and kill it after.
This avoids having any interdependence between the tests (and
there definitely was before, because we didn't wait for
the process to actually terminate after a kill() call).
Also, open a pipe between the two, and have the child app
monitor that pipe. If it gets closed (e.g. because the parent
died), the child exits. This is the most reliable way to
avoid stale children; before, if we failed an assertion, the
parent would abort, and not run kill().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621034
This adds a GApplication object to GIO, which is the core of
an application support class, supporting
- uniqueness
- exporting actions (simple scripting)
- standard actions (quit, activate)
The implementation for Linux uses D-Bus, takes a name on the
session bus, and exports a org.gtk.Application interface.
Implementations for Win32 and OS X are still missing.
