Faure: Freedesktop Summit 2014 Report

David Faure has a report on the Freedesktop Summit, which was held recently in Nuremberg. "The meeting also produced an agreement on the future of startup notification in the Wayland world. A protocol based on broadcast of D-Bus signals will be used instead of the current approach with X client messages. This approach is expected to integrate nicely with future frameworks for sandboxed applications. Improvements were also made to the protocol to allow for tab-based applications that make dynamic choices about creating a new tab or a new window depending on the workspace in which a document was opened."

[Editor's note: apologies to Ryan Lortie who wrote this article.]

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