ConsoleKit and esound retirement

[Stef Walter]

On 02/14/2013 06:35 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 02/14/2013 01:28 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 10:53 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:49:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>>
>>>> DJ Delorie wrote:
>>>>> Disadvantage, if you ask me.  First thing audacious did was spew
>>>>> random errors to the screen and change my Firefox and emacs cursors.
>>>>
>>>> So I suspect that Audacious started gnome-settings-daemon.
>>>
>>> It doesn't do that when I use OpenBox instead of GNOME, so OpenBox
>>> does not auto-spawn g-s-d.
>>>
>>> However, one of its plug-ins talks to DBus (org.gnome.SettingsDaemon)
>>> for GNOME media player keyboard shortcuts. That plug-in is enabled by
>>> default and by request, and anyone not running a compatible environment
>>> can easily switch it off in the preferences.
>>
>> Or you could fix the plugin to not auto-start the daemon so we don't get
>> blamed for Audacious bugs...
> 
> Actually after seeing this thread I was planning on sending a mail to
> ask people how to fix this. I guess that dbus-activation causes
> g-s-d to start when the audacious tries to talk to it.
> 
> Rather then a less the friendly worded reply, it would be actually
> helpful if you could tell us (pointer to a code example would be a
> bonus) how to talk to a dbus interface without causing
> dbus-activation to trigger.

Nothing fancy:

http://developer.gnome.org/gio/unstable/GDBusConnection.html#GDBusCallFlags

or

http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/api/html/group__DBusMessage.html#ga1596d92a8d604f954b48c7410263d2f0

Obviously I can't list every single language or binding here.

Cheers,

Stef