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releng:future [2012/11/29 11:25] – [Use GDBus] nickreleng:future [2012/11/29 11:27] (current) – [Use GDBus] nick
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 ===== Use GDBus ===== ===== 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.+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. 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.
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 Tasks: Tasks:
-  - Start with xfconf and port the code and generation to gdbus. +  - 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 implementations to gdbus.+  - Port the other components to gdbus.
   - Open bugs for the various components and attach the patches.   - Open bugs for the various components and attach the patches.
  
 Contact: Nick Contact: Nick