====== Future Roadmap ======

===== Use GDBus =====

A whole bunch of Xfce uses DBus communication (xfconf, thunar, xfce4-panel, xfce4-session, xfce4-appfinder, tumbler). Most of this is done through generating dbus binding  (xml > dbus-binding-tool > code) and using the dbus-glib library.

Since 2.26 glib has its own implementation for this to replace dbus-glib, so it is wise to switch to this API and drop dbus-glib.

Advantages are: gdbus does not include the dbus library and uses GIO streams. It's therefore a lighter implementation. dbus-glib is also not maintained as much as gdbus.

Tasks:
  - Start with xfconf and port the code and generation to gdbus. It might be wise to use direct proxy communication in libxfconf, because the calls are sync.
  - Port the other components to gdbus.
  - Open bugs for the various components and attach the patches.

Contact: Nick