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[Duncan McGreggor <duncan.mcgreggor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/27/2010 03:04 AM, Neil Jagdish Patel wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 19:35 +0200, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Chase Douglas
>> <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>         How do you map applications to windows? Is it based on the
>>         window title?
>>         If so, I suggest defining the "Application" property as a
>>         regex so
>>         titles can be matched easily no matter what their format.
>>
>>
>> Yes, because I think window title matching is easier for the user than
>> the windowid.
>> I'll extend this to regex as you stated.
> 
> NOOOOOOOOOO! :)
> 
> The will of dock-authors (Jason and me) compel you to use libbamf from
> Unity stack. That'll let you connect to the BAMF D-Bus daemon which will
> tell you:
> 
> - What the current application is (path to .desktop file)
> - What the current window of that application is (xid)
> - When the current application or window changes
> (plus a lot more)
> 
> BAMF holds all the window -> desktop file matching code (including
> Quirks), and we're trying to get things standardised on that, so would
> be awesome if you used it :) Ping Jason (irc: Jason or DBO) or me if you
> have any questions.
> 
> Regards,

Oh, nice Neil. This is a great idea. I've just pinged DBO on freenode,
asking if he can join the channel to help out Ikbel.

That'd be awesome if we started using BAMF. 'Cause that's what we are.

d