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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: about the D-Bus C API.
From:       "Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-11-13 16:56:03
Message-ID: 32541b130711130856h7b11c5f7pc80473407a1f46a1 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 13/11/2007, Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org> wrote:
> Signals can specify a destination. That seems wrong to me, if a signal is
> supposed to be a broadcast.

It's not, it's just a notification.

See the thread earlier about someone who wanted to send async
notifications about the progress of a long-running dbus method call.
You wouldn't broadcast that, you'd send it directly as a unicast
signal.

Have fun,

Avery
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