The freedesktop application specification is largely overlapping the
GLib application D-Bus interface but implementing it will allow for
applications to be launched directly from desktop files, which we want.
We keep the old Gtk interface for compatibility reasons and because it
has some functionality not in the freedesktop spec (Busy state,
CommandLine, etc.).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=699259
Back in the far-off twentieth century, it was normal on unix
workstations for U+0060 GRAVE ACCENT to be drawn as "‛" and for U+0027
APOSTROPHE to be drawn as "’". This led to the convention of using
them as poor-man's ‛smart quotes’ in ASCII-only text.
However, "'" is now universally drawn as a vertical line, and "`" at a
45-degree angle, making them an `odd couple' when used together.
Unfortunately, there are lots of very old strings in glib, and also
lots of new strings in which people have kept up the old tradition,
perhaps entirely unaware that it used to not look stupid.
Fix this by just using 'dumb quotes' everywhere.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700746
This feature is intended for clients that want to signal a desktop shell
their busy state, for instance because a long-running operation is
pending.
The API works in a similar way to g_application_hold and
g_application_release: applications can call g_application_mark_busy()
to increase a counter that will keep the application marked as busy
until the counter reaches zero again.
The busy state is exported read-only on the org.gtk.Application interface
for clients to use.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672018
There are two benefits to this:
1) We can centralize any operating system specific knowledge of
close-vs-EINTR handling. For example, while on Linux we should never
retry, if someone cared enough later about HP-UX, they could come by
and change this one spot.
2) For places that do care about the return value and want to provide
the caller with a GError, this function makes it convenient to do so.
Note that gspawn.c had an incorrect EINTR loop-retry around close().
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682819
This returns a GInputStream corresponding to the stdin on the
commandline that caused this invocation.
The local case works on both UNIX (GUnixInputStream on stdin) and
Windows (GWin32InputStream on GetStdHandle(STD_INPUT_HANDLE)). The
remote case works only on UNIX (by fd passing over D-Bus).
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668210
Even private functions that are actually called across compilation
units should have prototypes. For g_dbus_action_group_sync(), create
one in gdbusactiongroup-private.h
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687385
When the application is using its D-Bus backend, it is useful to be able
to export extra D-Bus objects at the right time, i.e. *before* the application
tries to own the bus name. This is accomplished here by adding a hook
in GApplicationClass for this; and a corresponding hook that will be called
on unregistration to undo whatever the register hook did.
Bug #675509.
Provide public access to the GDBusConnect and object path that
GApplication is using. Prevents others from having to guess these
things for themselves based on the application ID.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671249
We were attempting to unregister our ownership of our D-Bus name even in
the case that we were non-unique (ie: we didn't actually own the name).
Rework the logic a bit to prevent that: for non-unique, we leave
impl->bus_name as NULL and we only register/unregister if it is
non-NULL.
For a number of reasons it might be useful to register the object paths
associated with a non-unique application so that the application can at
least field requests to its unique D-Bus name.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647986
This interfaceifies the extra functions that were on GDBusActionGroup
for dealing with platform data.
The two main benefits of doing this:
- no longer have to do a silly song and dance in GApplication to avoid
calling GDBusActionGroup API from non-dbus-aware code
- the interface can be reused by the action group exporter to avoid
ugly and unbindable hook callbacks
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665737
Have one simple _get() API that returns the group immediately, in an
empty state. The group is initialised on the first attempt to interact
with it.
Leave a secret 'back door' for GApplication to do a blocking
initialisation.
The error handling on register() was just totally out of hand before.
Clean that mess up.
Take out the menu export for now as well. It will be added back again
later.
Rename g_application_set_menu to g_application_set_app_menu and make a
couple of fixups. Clarify the documentation about exactly what this
menu is meant to be.
Add g_application_set_menubar and document that as well.
There are no public 'exporter' objects, so don't allude to them
in the function names. At the same time, we want to make it clear
that these functions are D-Bus specific.
The new APIs are
g_action_group_dbus_export_start
g_action_group_dbus_export_query
g_action_group_dbus_export_stop
g_menu_model_dbus_export_start
g_menu_model_dbus_export_query
g_menu_model_dbus_export_stop
If we can't get on the session bus, just behave like a normal non-unique
application.
This turns out to be remarkably easy to implement and lets us avoid
adding a 'dummy' backend.
Add a test for this case as well.
Idea from Zachary Dovel.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651997
