On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 20:12 +0100, Jonny Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 18:38 +0100, Mark Ellis wrote: > > I was just wondering if anyone was currently doing any further work with > > vdccm ? > > No. This was Volker's dccm implementation, and nowadays he is very busy > and no longer does any work on it. It is advised only to be used in > pre-WM5 devices, and the numbers of people with pre-WM5 these days are > very small. > > Ole Andre was implementing WM5 support in vdccm, but found it hard to > get anywhere with the way that vdccm is written, and so he wrote odccm. >
That's pretty much what I thought. I've only been focusing on vdccm because only have an older device. What I think may be best then is to provide an option to vdccm to disable what WM5 support exists, just so it is possible to support anything on one machine. > > While connection events are passed via dbus in addition to > > ~/.synce/csock, password requests only go via the socket. It would also > > be nice to have an odccm-style get... suite of methods. I'm looking at > > this now for use for use with trayicon and gnomevfs, might take a while > > since I'm just getting to grips with dbus..... > > To be honest, I would suspect the way forward would be to add pre-WM5 > support to odccm. I've never really looked at the dccm implementations, > but I do expect that would a bit of a bigger job than simply adding > these aforementioned methods. > > However, as I also mentioned earlier, with the way that vdccm is > written, I expect adding this stuff on might be tricky. vdccm tends not > to use any frameworks, whereas odccm uses frameworks galore. As I said > earlier, I haven't dabbled with the dccm implementations so I'm not sure > how hard it would be to add pre-WM5 support, so I asked oleavr. He said > it wouldn't be hard for someone with a wm2003 device and a basic > understanding of C/GObject. > Cool, for the time being then I'll probably fiddle with vdccm as above so I can talk to both from trayicon etc, then dig deeper at a later time. I've only looked at the desktop client side so far, no idea about the device side. Hmm, my list is growing. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
