Hi Kalle, > > You are still missing the big picture here. Every OpenMoko specific > > interface is a step back. You will have OpenMoko specific things, > > because that is unavoidable since some stuff depends on the actual > > hardware and can't be generalized. For all other things you wanna go a > > way that works on OpenMoko, Maemo, GNOME, KDE and other desktops. > > Yes, true. But that's not to say that the current way is the best one. > > It makes sense to define these things someplace. If you are aiming for > 'a standard set', then define it.
actually this is the job of the subsystem to come up with a standard set. But again path names mean nothing here. They are only strings. For all the rest we have freedesktop.org. > > The point is to talk to upstream projects and make them aware of the > > needs and find a common solution that works on all platforms and is > > sufficient for the current needs. > > Yeah, true. This should be done someplace higher. And in a manner that > can then be expanded someplace else with plugins. > > In fact wouldn't that be nice to have a dbus service meeting place to > which applications could publish their paths, and then other > applications could browse through them. > > this way it'd only take a small plugin to cover features in openmoko. > > Of course this actually does not take away the problem of not-defined > paths, as such. But these paths could define their features as well. And again. D-Bus has introspection and while a defined path is a convenience, it is not necessary. The well known bus name is what you do need. > Then again all ipc depends in pretty intricate knowledge of the other > party, so the benefit of a 'service meeting place' is a questionable > one. Unless there is a clear definition of the protocols used in the > communication, of course. Actually D-Bus is a message bus with method calls and signals. So basically it is only an API contract defined through the interfaces. Regards Marcel _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
