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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How Can I change wallpaper from CLI?
From:       Kevin Krammer <krammer () kde ! org>
Date:       2012-09-06 16:05:27
Message-ID: 201209061805.42391.krammer () kde ! org
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On Thursday, 2012-09-06, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> in the same way that every application that opens files stored on disk
> needs to support file open/read/write. in reality, very few of our
> applications make direct libc calls to achieve this and instead rely on
> (much) higher level libraries to keep such details at arms length.

Sure, same as applications dealing with images using the Kipi plugins for 
sharing implementations of common tasks.

> the introspection mechanism is completely encapsulated in libkactivities
> and no application need (or should) care now or in the future about the
> implementation details. in frameworks 5 libkactivities will end up being a
> Qt- only library. the dbus API is also available in a well-formed dbus xml
> service definition so it can be readily reused by other applications which
> don't use Qt.

Excellent, so can any of the developers involved with this effort compile a 
list of D-Bus introspection files (probably as links into the repository) for 
the thread starter so he can implement the necessary adaptors/interfaces in 
whatever technology stack he is using?

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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