On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:51, David Zeuthen wrote:
On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:21 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
>On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:37, Frederick Alexander Thomssen wrote:
>> hi,
>>
>> once dbus-qt was removed from fedora because there was no use for it. but now
>> kde 3.4 supports dbus-qt for the media:/ protocol which indicated if a new
>> device was connected. so there now is a use for dbus-qt so i think it ought
>> to be included.
>
>Does an app in fedora core require it? When you say the media:/
>protocol indicates if a new device is connected, does it listen to dbus
>signals or does it propagate them itself? For device connection there
>is already a freedesktop standard for propagating device additions and
>removals called HAL. Also does kde 3.4 compile against the qt-dbus
>bindings in CVS? So far the qt bindings in CVS have not been passing a
>dist check on my fedora box. This may be a candidate for extras if I
>can figure out how to split packages between extras and core when they
>come from the same spec. I also have no objection into getting into
>core provided there is a real need. I am hesitant to put it in if the
>API is still in flux since the apps that use it and the version of dbus
>we ship may get out of sync.
It appears to use hal 0.4.x and dbus 0.23.x cf.
http://www.archivum.info/kde-core-devel@kde.org/2004-12/msg00290.html
If the Qt bindings for D-BUS 0.30 is/gets in a usable state, we should
look at writing a patch so it can speak to hal 0.5.x - it shouldn't be
much work at all; updating the Qt D-bindings to the new D-BUS is the big
thing that needs to work.
David
In which case someone needs to do the work of getting the Qt-dbus
bindings up to par and KDE ported before I will consider enabling it. I
don't know if I will feel comfortable enabling it until D-BUS goes 1.0
(which should be soon). Note that by Monday D-BUS 0.3.0 will be in
rawhide.
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J5