[Meta] IPC mechanism

[Ristovski]

Given the future deprecation notice in:

vivarium/config/config.toml

Lines 67 to 71 in 94b4d6a

	[ipc]
	# The filename to which Vivarium will write workspace state information whenever something changes.
	# Programs can watch this file to display the workspace status.
	# This is a hacky solution that will be deprecated at some point.
	# workspaces-filename = "/path/to/some/file.txt"

what are the (if any) plans/ideas for implementing a better IPC mechanism?

Will Vivarium use a custom Wayland protocol for this ala River?
This for example is how yambar is able to extract the current workspace info from River directly.

[inclement]

I don't have any specific plan for this - in its current state it's good enough for my use and it isn't at the top of the priority list for further development.

I deliberately stayed away from a full custom protocol initially because it's a lot of complexity that wasn't core to what Vivarium needed and that I didn't think I could support well. I was thinking that perhaps an adequate intermediate solution would be a proper output data socket but with relatively little configurability compared to a full protocol. I haven't thought it through in much detail though.

[flaviozavan]

this protocol here could be a good candidate to solve this problem, but it is still not ready