Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> One question, though: Is D-Bus able to start the help browser on >> demand when a call is made to the API or is it needed that the help >> browser is already running (providing it is the help browser >> implementing the API)? > >d-bus supports activation-on-call[1]. the challenge here will be picking > which application to start based on the environment; right now the dbus > specification lists specifying locations for .service files as > FIXMEs[2]. in all, activation seems a little loosely defined right now > in d-bus, but it is there. this could be a good excuse to hammer out > some of those details.
If a service is desktop-dependent, the desktop should acquire the service when it starts up. It makes more sense to me than creating a program or script that detects the desktop and spawns the correct desktop-dependent service. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358
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