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List:       freedesktop-dbus
Subject:    Re: roadmap
From:       "Michael 'Mickey' Lauer" <mickey () vanille-media ! de>
Date:       2008-08-08 9:43:29
Message-ID: 200808081143.29440.mickey () vanille-media ! de
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Am Freitag 08 August 2008 06:55:15 schrieb Havoc Pennington:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Scott James Remnant <scott@canonical.com> 
wrote:
> > Firstly having it such that an object is notified when somebody is
> > matching against its signals, and thus it can choose not to emit them
> > unless anybody's listening -- reducing bus wakeup, traffic, etc.  This
> > could be handled entirely in bindings.
>
> This was considered when designing the signals stuff. I think there's
> a simpler solution, and it happens to have other advantages as well.
>
> The simplest fix, if signal wakeups of the bus daemon are a problem in
> a particular case, would be to just have custom methods that
> enable/disable signals.

I think this is ugly, as it imposes duplicating a pattern that's already 
happening on the dbus itself.

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:M:
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