dbus-qt

[David Zeuthen]

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