[Geany-Devel] A direction for Geany

Matthew Brush mbrush at xxxxx
Wed Nov 13 09:53:49 UTC 2013


On 13-11-13 12:04 AM, Thomas Martitz wrote:
> Am 13.11.2013 02:15, schrieb Matthew Brush:
>> On 13-11-12 04:05 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> I think this would need a more client-server-architecture as maybe
>>>> described in point 3. However, I'd like to have multiple Geany
>>>> instances
>>>> working at same session. But I'm a little afraid of the changes
>>>> needs to
>>>> be done for it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thats an interesting potential solution we need to examine.
>>>
>>
>> This is completely taken care of/easy[1] with some of the newer APIs
>> provided by GTK3 (might even be available in later GTK2 versions). It
>> uses DBus for interprocess communications behind the scenes.
>
> How's the DBus situation on Windows?
>

I've never used in on Windows myself but based on a 2 second Google 
search it seems to be available/ported/working. It sounds plausible 
since I think Qt also uses it, and they seem to be big on Windows support.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush



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