dbus-qt

[John (J5) Palmieri]

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