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@sdroege sdroege commented Jan 18, 2023

…t thread-default MainContext

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glib/src/lib.rs
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ pub use self::bridged_logging::{rust_log_handler, GlibLogger, GlibLoggerDomain,
pub mod subclass;

mod main_context_futures;
pub use main_context_futures::{JoinError, JoinHandle};
pub use main_context_futures::{spawn, spawn_with_priority, JoinError, JoinHandle};
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The naming of the functions is a bit suboptimal as there's also this set of functions: https://gtk-rs.org/gtk-rs-core/git/docs/glib/fn.spawn_async.html

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spawn_main_context?

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Or directly make these two functions methods of MainContext and add doc aliases on them.

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There are already methods with that name on MainContext. The goal here is to have a function that gets the correct main context instance and then calls the method on that.

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spawn_on_thread_default_main_context() could work of course, but that's almost as long as the implementation of the function :)

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Maybe could move this into a glib::futures module, and also potentially move some other things in there. Not sure.

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sdroege commented Jan 18, 2023

This is apparently not too useful because g_application_run() and g_main_loop_run() are not pushing their main context as the thread default one.

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sdroege commented Jan 19, 2023

Maybe something like this. It would take the thread-default main context if any, otherwise the global default. And then make sure that the current thread actually owns it.

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sdroege commented Jan 27, 2023

I guess there is not really any interest in having such a function? Let's close this then?

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BrainBlasted commented Jan 27, 2023 •
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Huh? This would definitely be helpful. Apps currently use a macro for this.

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sdroege commented Jan 27, 2023

I got no feedback at all so I assumed nobody actually needed it :) As it's apparently useful to you, do you have suggestions about the name and where to put it? Where/how would you expect it?

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A6GibKm commented Jan 27, 2023 •
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Huh? This would definitely be helpful. Apps currently use a macro for this.

Note that they do MainContext::default() rather than MainContext::thread_default(), that has me a bit confused, if they are equivalent then sure this would be rather helpful.

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sdroege commented Jan 27, 2023

Note that they do MainContext::default() rather than MainContext::thread_default(), that has me a bit confused, if they are equivalent then sure this would be rather helpful.

For an application that didn't configure a custom thread default main context this would end up the same.

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sdroege commented Jan 28, 2023

Conclusion seems to be to make a new glib::futures module and add this as glib::futures::spawn(), and I guess move various other function in there too.

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Has anyone started working in that direction?

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sdroege commented May 31, 2023

I'm not aware of anybody having started such work

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