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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KNotificationAreaItem
From:       Olivier Goffart <ogoffart () kde ! org>
Date:       2009-04-20 21:11:08
Message-ID: 200904202311.14453.ogoffart () kde ! org
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Le Mandag 20 april 2009, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit  :
> On Monday 20 April 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > * there is a long-running d-bus service that keeps track of the items and
> > the visualizations (in the case of KDE, a kded4 module, though each
> > environment could and should provide its own)
>
> something that came up during a private conversation was defining the role
> of this part of it a bit more clearly:
>
> this service only keeps track of the dbus services registered with it such
> that visualizations can find items to show, and apps can register items.
>
> the actual data describing each item is communicated directly between the
> visualization and the item so as to cut down on the number of times data
> needs to be copied around and stored.


Doesnn't the fact that this service is required show a flaw in dbus itself.
Is there a way to ask dbus all the running client that provides a given 
interface?


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