Hello, I am the maintainer of pcsc-lite [1] a middleware to access smart cards and smart cards readers. I am really new to D-Bus and HAL.
Someone asked for an applet that would indicate if a card activity is ongoing or not. The idea is to have the equivalent of a smart card reader blinking LED but in a gnome applet. The idea is nice. Some of my readers do not blink the LED when an APDU is exchanged so it is not easy to know if something is happening. In general I look at the pcscd debug logs but a Gnome applet would be nicer/more integrated. My question is: what mechanism to use to convey the information? I was thinking of using D-Bus and also provide other information like reader insertion/removal, card insertion/removal. And then card communication status. I need a one-way only event mechanism to signal events. Maybe D-Bus is too complex and HAL is the correct answer to my problem? Is D-Bus a good enough mechanism for that? Or should I use something else? Is HAL more appropriate? Any comment on this idea? This may be related to the smart_card_reader HAL name space proposed (and accepted) in [2]. Thanks, [1] http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ [2] http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19663 -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
