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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 10:13 +0100, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Ted Gould wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-01-04 at 15:18 +0100, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> >> We need a way to implement this in dbusmenu without introducing latency.
> >> Here is my proposal for this:
> >>
> >> Add a "bool aboutToShow(id)" method to the DBus interface. This method
> >> would be called when the menu is about to show and should return true if
> >> the menu needs to be refreshed, false otherwise.
> > 
> > I guess I figured we could just use the "event" call for this.  I don't
> > see why the function call needs a return, in that the signal to update
> > the menu would effectively be the same as a return of TRUE in this case..
> 
> The idea of a dedicated method is to introduce the "10msec timeout
> before showing the menu". It would be ugly to say "for this event the
> host is going to wait 10msecs, for this other event it is not going to
> wait".
> 
> Since we introduce a new method, getting the result from the return
> value rather than waiting for a signal feel more efficient.

But, if we implemented the event mask that we had discussed (I don't
think anyone has implemented it) then we would know whether a menu was
interested in the event and we should wait.

		--Ted

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