From kde-core-devel  Fri May 26 16:13:40 2006
From: =?UTF-8?B?xLBzbWFpbCBEw7ZubWV6?= <ismail () pardus ! org ! tr>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 16:13:40 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: D-BUS required changes in KDE 4
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David Faure wrote On 26-05-2006 19:02:
[...]
>>> That does answer the question, though: is it a feature we should push for 
>>> in D-BUS or should we simply mandate that the daemon be running in all 
>>> circumstances?
>> The latter, distros should take care of that in init scripts.
> 
> Which distro are we talking about, when thinking about Solaris, Mac OS X and Windows,
> for example? This isn't about Linux only; we need a dbus server everywhere.
> Isn't the best way to ensure that we get one, to start one when needed?
> Of course on linux we can expect that distros will launch a dbus server before kde,
> but a fallback solution is very much necessary for all the other cases.
> 

Windows can do services so do MacOSX I think and so do any sane 
operating system. But it can't hurt to be double sure, though seems 
unnecessary to me.

/ismail