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The -remote option has existed essentially forever, but its usefulness is questionable: - It requires a running instance to be any useful, so any script actually using it should first do -remote 'ping()' and handle the response properly. - It is not cross-application. The remote service dispatches the -remote commands to the command line handler, and, for example, desktop b2g builds don't have handlers for -remote (although thunderbird and seamonkey do). - It is not a cross-platform option, which leads to the following point: - There are other command line ways to do the same thing (at least in Firefox), without having to jump through hoops with -remote 'ping()', because there are command line options to do those same things on non-X11 platforms. For the latter, in Firefox case: - -remote 'openURL(url)' can be replaced with firefox url - -remote 'openURL(url,new-tab)' can be replaced with firefox -new-tab url - -remote 'openURL(url,new-window)' can be replaced with firefox -new-window url - -remote 'openfile(file,...)' is the same as -remote 'openurl(file,...) so, can be replaced as above - -remote 'xfedocommand(openbrowser)' is inherited from the mozilla suite and doesn't make much sense, but can be replaced with firefox -new-window The interesting part is that without changing nsBrowserContentHandler.js, -remote still works, meaning that if people really feel strongly about -remote, they'll still be able to write an addon to bring it back. This also means this patch actually doesn't remove -remote for applications other than Firefox that do support it, although -remote 'ping()' doesn't work as expected. However, other -remote commands will now work even without a running instance.
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63 lines
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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
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/* vim:expandtab:shiftwidth=2:tabstop=8:
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*/
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/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
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* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
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* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
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#ifndef NSXREMOTESERVICE_H
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#define NSXREMOTESERVICE_H
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#include "nsString.h"
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#include "nsIRemoteService.h"
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#include "nsIObserver.h"
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#include <X11/Xlib.h>
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#include <X11/X.h>
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class nsIDOMWindow;
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class nsIWeakReference;
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/**
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Base class for GTK/Qt remote service
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*/
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class nsXRemoteService : public nsIRemoteService,
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public nsIObserver
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{
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public:
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NS_DECL_NSIOBSERVER
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protected:
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nsXRemoteService();
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static bool HandleNewProperty(Window aWindowId,Display* aDisplay,
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Time aEventTime, Atom aChangedAtom,
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nsIWeakReference* aDomWindow);
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void XRemoteBaseStartup(const char *aAppName, const char *aProfileName);
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void HandleCommandsFor(Window aWindowId);
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static nsXRemoteService *sRemoteImplementation;
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private:
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void EnsureAtoms();
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static const char* HandleCommandLine(char* aBuffer, nsIDOMWindow* aWindow,
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uint32_t aTimestamp);
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virtual void SetDesktopStartupIDOrTimestamp(const nsACString& aDesktopStartupID,
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uint32_t aTimestamp) = 0;
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nsCString mAppName;
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nsCString mProfileName;
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static Atom sMozVersionAtom;
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static Atom sMozLockAtom;
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static Atom sMozResponseAtom;
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static Atom sMozUserAtom;
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static Atom sMozProfileAtom;
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static Atom sMozProgramAtom;
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static Atom sMozCommandLineAtom;
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};
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#endif // NSXREMOTESERVICE_H
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