On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:51, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 12:21 -0500, John (J5) Palmieri wrote: > >On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:37, Frederick Alexander Thomssen wrote: > >> hi, > >> > >> once dbus-qt was removed from fedora because there was no use for it. but now > >> kde 3.4 supports dbus-qt for the media:/ protocol which indicated if a new > >> device was connected. so there now is a use for dbus-qt so i think it ought > >> to be included. > > > >Does an app in fedora core require it? When you say the media:/ > >protocol indicates if a new device is connected, does it listen to dbus > >signals or does it propagate them itself? For device connection there > >is already a freedesktop standard for propagating device additions and > >removals called HAL. Also does kde 3.4 compile against the qt-dbus > >bindings in CVS? So far the qt bindings in CVS have not been passing a > >dist check on my fedora box. This may be a candidate for extras if I > >can figure out how to split packages between extras and core when they > >come from the same spec. I also have no objection into getting into > >core provided there is a real need. I am hesitant to put it in if the > >API is still in flux since the apps that use it and the version of dbus > >we ship may get out of sync. > > It appears to use hal 0.4.x and dbus 0.23.x cf. > > http://www.archivum.info/kde-core-devel@xxxxxxx/2004-12/msg00290.html > > If the Qt bindings for D-BUS 0.30 is/gets in a usable state, we should > look at writing a patch so it can speak to hal 0.5.x - it shouldn't be > much work at all; updating the Qt D-bindings to the new D-BUS is the big > thing that needs to work. > > David In which case someone needs to do the work of getting the Qt-dbus bindings up to par and KDE ported before I will consider enabling it. I don't know if I will feel comfortable enabling it until D-BUS goes 1.0 (which should be soon). Note that by Monday D-BUS 0.3.0 will be in rawhide. -- J5
