On 22/03/07, Holger Macht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu 22. Mar - 13:21:01, Richard Hughes wrote:
> It's one extra method, and one extra signal, so it's hardly much API
> duplication.
I disagree. In which case is another application querying this information
more than once? And in which case does the other application need more
than one specific information. I don't think application developers
understand why they should duplicate this functionality for those easy and
rare methods. It makes the whole thing unnecessarily complicated. It
should be as simple and transparent as possible.
Sure, I think Rob's use case can be seen by example.
The gnome-logout box wants to put an option button for each available mode.
That's 4 dbus method calls for 4 bits of information. The other
argument is that we should just optimise DBUS, or just the fact that I
can do 4 methods in an totally tiny amount of time on my laptop.
Richard.
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