From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: dbus library functions Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:40:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87skp8mp0f.fsf@gmx.de> References: <8763m6xgvi.fsf@everybody.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228110066 15238 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2008 05:41:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 05:41:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 01 06:42:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L71Xu-0005z3-2R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:42:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L71Wj-00046i-Sw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:40:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L71Wf-00046R-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:40:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L71Wd-00046F-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:40:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36994 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L71Wd-00046C-A0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55767) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L71Wc-0003G1-OK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Dec 2008 05:40:49 -0000 Original-Received: from p57A2308C.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO arthur.local) [87.162.48.140] by mail.gmx.net (mp067) with SMTP; 01 Dec 2008 06:40:49 +0100 X-Authenticated: #3708877 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18KS1QM9NoKu6gwdgD6J51+mlxKd9jl4b4mM4kCk4 /ErNME+ApzSW3Z In-Reply-To: <8763m6xgvi.fsf@everybody.org> (Mark A. Hershberger's message of "Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:16:33 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.61 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106358 Archived-At: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) writes: > I'm interested in making a library of common dbus services available in > Emacs. > > Three logical services would be Notify, On Screen Display, and Avahi. > Perhaps some of the power management information available via DBus > would be useful to battery.el, as well. > > So, two questions: > > 1. Would building Emacs Lisp functions to encapsulate some of the DBus > information be useful to include in the core? There are already some of them: xesam.el, zeroconf.el. > 2. Would it be better to create separate libraries (e.g. notify.el, > osd.el, avahi.el) or a single one (e.g. freedesktop-dbus.el) for > these functions? I believe, separate libraries are the better approach. And zeroconf.el *IS* your planned avahi.el. I was thinking about writing something like notify.el, but other projects had priority. osd.el might be useful, too. Anyway, we have feature freeze, so I assume you must postpone your proposals until after-the-release. I have also some libraries in the queue, which wait for that (xesam-debbugs.el - an interface to the Emacs bug tracking system; collabora.el - support for collaborative editing; tramp-gvs.el - using Tramp via the gvfs daemon). Btw, it would be great, if you could comment the existing D-Bus based packages, especially zeroconf.el. I didn't receive so much feedback until now. > Thanks, > > Mark. Best regards, Michael.