89911 - x-remote support needs some cleanup

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, defect)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

The X remote support that we have really needs cleanup.  There are several problems.

o We put the supporting property on not just toplevel windows but popup windows
as well.

I have to figure out a way to distinguish in between a window that's part of
mozilla-the-browser and another window like a popup or dialog.  We don't want to
get requests on those kinds of windows.

o We don't support the -id argument like the old netscape nav 4.x

We need to add support to the command line handler to support -id so you can
specifiy ids of windows.  This is all client side and is pretty easy to do.

o We put properties on windows when they shouldn't have them, like in embedding
applications.

We need to move the logic that sets up remote support up into the application so
we can tell what kinds of windows they are.  Not sure how to do this yet.

o We don't share any code in between windows or linux

The code that's in xpfe for native windows DDE contains much of the same code
that's in my remote helper code.  I'm pretty sure that we could componentize
this code and share it.  Also, this would help me build a -turbo mode equivalent
for linux.

I'll file bugs to get this work done.  The last is why people are cc'ed.

Comment 1

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Fixed