43990 - nsIEventLoop et. al needs to be implemented

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P3)

Description

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

xpcom/appshell need to be complete on all platform.

Comment 1

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

windows and photon are the only two that are complete.  

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

moving out milestones.

Comment 3

[Judson Valeski]

not needed right away.

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

dan, I think that this might be in your realm now.  

Comment 5

[Dan M]

Joy. It occurs to me it may be necessary to finish this for Mozilla 0.8 and 
embedding. I so totally can't finish it in time. For starters, last time I looked 
at it (maybe a year ago) design and assumptions were very Windows-centric and 
just weren't going to work under gtk. I'm putting this in the list of embedding 
tasks and marking it 0.8, for now. I'm gonna be foisting this off on someone.

Comment 6

[Dan M]

  Panic attack over. Heart rate decreasing. Vision returning.
  After consideration, we're thinking now that the appshell event loop is not an 
issue for embedding. It's an absurd exercise for Gecko to even try to provide a 
workable captive event loop suitable for use in embedding applications. Our 
current chosen direction is one where the application provides its own support 
for modality, and we must merely document this.
  Removing from embedding/0.8 radar.

Comment 7

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Agreed.

Comment 8

[Thomas]

any progress with this xpcom/appshell?

Comment 9

[Dan M]

Last I heard, we decided not to do this after all. See comment 6.