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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: decibel and dbus names
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-02-18 21:11:19
Message-ID: 200802182211.19503.faure () kde ! org
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On Monday 18 February 2008, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Leo Savernik wrote:
> > Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> > > > You are right: Decibel is using de.basyskom in its D-Bus names. I
> > > > did not want to intrude into the KDE namespace without permission,
> > > > so I used ours instead. I asked on IRC a couple of times whether I
> > > > may use kde.org, but so far did not get a definite reply (yes, I
> > > > should have asked on the mailing lists).
> > > 
> > > We have no official policy on using org.kde.* in D-Bus. We should have
> > > a registry of that and one that matches our DNS subdomains too.
> > 
> > I'd say, if in doubt, use both. Does D-Bus support aliases?
> 
> What do you mean by aliases?

He means registering under both names. Yes, this is certainly supported by D-Bus.
But do we need some kind of wire compatibility here? Are there released apps that \
rely on decibel already? If not, then no need to pollute things with two names where \
one is enough.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).


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