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authorMatthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>2010-10-31 22:14:53 -0400
committerTristan Van Berkom <tristan.van.berkom@gmail.com>2010-11-02 12:04:36 +0900
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Mention actions in the libunique migration guide
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<section><title>Commands and Messages</title>
<para>
libunique lets you send messages with commands to a running
- instance using unique_app_send_message(). GApplication does not
- have a direct equivalent for this feature at this time, but
- some of the predefined libunique commands have equivalents in
- GApplication. Instead of sending the %UNIQUE_ACTIVATE command,
- call g_application_activate(), instead of sending the
+ instance using unique_app_send_message(). The commands can be either
+ predefined or custom. Some of the predefined libunique commands have
+ equivalents in GApplication. Instead of sending the %UNIQUE_ACTIVATE
+ command, call g_application_activate(), instead of sending the
%UNIQUE_OPEN command, call g_application_open(). The
%UNIQUE_NEW and %UNIQUE_CLOSE and user-defined commands don't
have direct replacement at this time.
</para>
<para>
- On the other hand, GApplication supports passing entire
- commandlines to the running instance, which reduces the need
- for user-defined commands. And GDBus makes it very easy to
- implement D-Bus interfaces for communication between
- application instances, see e.g. g_dbus_connection_register_object().
+ As a replacement for custom commands, GApplication implements the
+ #GActionGroup interface and lets you add a group of actions with
+ g_application_set_action_group(). The actions can then be invoked,
+ either by using the D-Bus interface for #GAction directly, or by
+ calling g_action_group_activate_action() from another instance of
+ the GApplication. The #GApplication documentation contains an
+ example for using GApplication with actions.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ For more complex needs, GApplication supports passing entire
+ commandlines to the running instance.
</para>
</section>
</chapter>