From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:55:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200311031155.02293.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FA3FF46.7010309@namesys.com>
Hi Hans,
hi LKML,
On Saturday 01 November 2003 19:45, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Ingo Oeser wrote:
> >2) In a out-of-the-box Linux system its getting harder and harder to find
> > the issuer of a search request to do the refinement.
> >
> >The latter is due to heavy asynchronity of modern user interfaces.
> >
> >I have usally several consoles, several xterms with screen in them,
> >several desktops with xterms and other programs, several X-Servers
> >running, some screen sessions attached to some virtual terminals and
> >some people even have multihead.
> >
> >Where does the refinement get sent to, without application support?
> probably looking at the DISPLAY environment variable for the relevant
> process is the right answer.
It's not always passed through, since each layer only knows the relative
issuer, but not the absolute one. And some systems just have a piece of
memory and a semaphore for notification.
This is a bit hard. Try it experimentally to get a notification done for
each leaf UI in the UI tree situation decribed above. My desktop is KDE
3.1.4, to ease your experiment.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
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2003-10-29 8:50 Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right Hans Reiser
2003-10-29 22:42 ` Erik Andersen
2003-10-29 23:03 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-29 22:25 ` Dax Kelson
2003-10-30 0:20 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 0:54 ` Neil Brown
2003-10-30 1:34 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 2:54 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-10-30 2:58 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-10-30 3:16 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 5:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-30 5:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-10-30 3:16 ` Neil Brown
2003-10-30 3:39 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 10:27 ` Thorsten Körner
2003-10-30 21:28 ` jlnance
2003-10-30 22:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-10-31 2:03 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-31 1:04 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-10-30 2:09 ` Alex Belits
2003-10-30 3:12 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 4:21 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-10-31 16:42 ` Timothy Miller
2003-10-31 19:15 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 9:52 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-30 4:06 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-10-30 1:52 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-30 2:03 ` Joseph Pingenot
2003-10-30 9:23 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-10-30 3:57 ` Scott Robert Ladd
2003-10-30 4:08 ` Larry McVoy
2003-10-30 13:46 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-10-31 4:50 ` Stephen Satchell
2003-10-30 7:33 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-10-30 8:43 ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-10-30 8:05 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 8:17 ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-10-30 11:59 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 9:14 ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-10-30 9:55 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 17:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-30 19:23 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-30 20:31 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-31 7:40 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-31 19:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2003-10-31 20:47 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-31 13:59 ` Herman
2003-10-31 21:23 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-01 18:30 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-31 21:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-11-02 21:42 ` Hans Reiser
2003-11-03 12:42 ` Nikita Danilov
2003-11-03 16:58 ` Timothy Miller
2003-11-04 8:13 ` Hans Reiser
2003-11-05 13:51 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-11-05 2:07 ` Hans Reiser
2003-10-31 11:01 ` Kenneth Johansson
2003-10-31 13:52 ` Jesse Pollard
2003-10-30 11:21 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-10-30 7:25 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-10-30 8:10 ` Hans Reiser
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2003-11-03 10:55 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2003-11-04 8:10 ` Hans Reiser
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2003-10-30 11:10 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-10-30 17:23 ` Alex Belits
2003-10-31 1:46 ` Daniel B.
2003-10-31 1:57 ` Philippe Troin
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2003-10-30 12:04 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
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2003-10-30 12:16 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-11-02 13:11 Brian Beattie
2003-11-02 17:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-03 19:35 ` Brian Beattie
2003-11-03 20:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-03 20:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-03 20:54 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-03 21:01 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-03 22:06 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-04 8:47 ` Michael Clark
2003-11-04 12:47 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-04 14:02 ` Brian Beattie
2003-11-03 20:55 ` Roland Dreier
2003-11-04 0:35 ` Daniel B.
2003-11-04 14:05 ` Brian Beattie
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