On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:58 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Though dbus does allow you to do these async (fire them all off then > wait for all results), which I would recommend for anything an app is > doing at startup, even though it's sort of painful. Assuming most > apps > will be doing a variety of calls on startup it probably will speed up > app launch if say 20-30 round trips are all done async instead of > with > blocking round trips in serial.
Sure, agree. > As an alternative to a bitfield, one option is a dictionary of > properties. This is most likely nicer than a bitfield in say python, > and more annoying than a bitfield in C. Yes, a dictionary might be nice, but it's not trivial to access in C. This stuff really needs to be *trivial* for an application to access, hence why I think booleans are probably best. Thanks, Richard. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
