Hello Developers,
Recently there has been a move towards modularizing the config dialogs within
E17. With the development in this area raster and I were thinking it would be
a nice time to modularize the IPC code. That is, the enlightenment binary
should only contain a minimal amount of IPC functionality (Module, Restart,
Profiles) while the rest should be extended via modules.
The problem with the current IPC framework is that the handlers are not
dynamically appendable. This could be fixed. However, I believe that dbus
should be the way to advertise out IPC as it seems like the standard way to do
things now (look at, pidgin, gnome, rhythmbox etc. if you will). The final goal
is to remove the e_ipc_handlers* files completely. e_ipc is still needed for
e_fm and thumbnailing.
Attached is a file that implements the core dbus subsystem in E17. The next
step is to expose register / unregister API to allow modules to register
interfaces with the enlightenment window manager core RemoteObject.
Currently any feedback and opinions will be helpful.
Current API:
<!DOCTYPE node PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Object Introspection 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/introspect.dtd";>
<node name="/org/enlightenment/wm/RemoteObject">
<interface name="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable">
<method name="Introspect">
<arg type="s" direction="out"/>
</method>
</interface>
<interface name="org.enlightenment.wm.Core">
<method name="Restart">
</method>
<method name="Shutdown">
</method>
</interface>
<interface name="org.enlightenment.wm.Module">
<method name="Load">
<arg type="s" direction="in"/>
</method>
<method name="Unload">
<arg type="s" direction="in"/>
</method>
<method name="Enable">
<arg type="s" direction="in"/>
</method>
<method name="Disable">
<arg type="s" direction="in"/>
</method>
<method name="List">
<arg type="a(si)" direction="out"/>
</method>
</interface>
</node>
-Stafford
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