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[SII <dante.ashton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought D-Bus was only good for outright notification and limited control?
If everything works as planned, significant modification will have to be
done...not only making controls of the application usable to Wintermute, but
also removing the little things that don't really work very well within a
natural language enviroment, like titlebars and buttons...


-Dante


On 11 September 2011 00:28, Jacky Alcine <jacky.alcine@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sweet, Phill. Having an introspection is always good. We would be trying to
> have a plugin that communicated to Wintermute and Chrome by means of D-Bus.
> D-bus is Wintermutes needle into the veins of the system...
>
>
> On Friday, September 9, 2011, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > ** CORRECTION** for UBUNTU, not just Lubuntu :)
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Of course, I *could* always ask Fabien for his views? Oh... Fabien...
> He's the guy who deals with the Chromium bugs via Lubuntu & gets releases
> out in a couple of hours. He's one of the Chromium Developers and comes
> across as a really nice guy. Nothing ventured, nothing gained :)
> >> Regards,
> >> Phill.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 1:35 AM, SII <dante.ashton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We'd still have to do some major mods to get Winty to fit it into it's
> own DE. (yes, working on the design, give me a couple more days)
> >>> -Dante
> >>>
> >>> On 6 September 2011 20:18, Jacky Alcine <jacky.alcine@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Wouldn't have to totally modify Chromium, we'd have to take advantage
> of NPAPI (ie: search up Chromify-OSD in the Chrome Store). We could bind it
> to interpret whatever it can from Flash objects (some objects could be
> linked to RDF data, but I haven't seen it done).
> >>>>
> >>>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 6:34 AM, SII <dante.ashton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> OK, all of you know we're working on a 'closed' environment to make
> things simpler for Wintermute; This means control of functions/applications
> as well as versions.
> >>>>> The trouble is, how do we deal with the web?
> >>>>> I'm not a web dev; so I'm not sure about a lot of things when it
> comes to web-browsing for a machine. For instance, Flash objects will be
> opaque to Wintermute; it only makes sense to humans. Same with video
> regardless of format.
> >>>>> Perhaps a modified version of Chromium?
> >>>>> Thoughts/problems/etc?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Jacky Alcine
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