Re: Wasabi Dbus Search Standard

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

Kevin Kubasik wrote:
> Hey all, just thought we should discuss this new standard thats being
> cooked up at fdo, theres not a real start page, but you can get to most
> of the stuff through this page
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/WasabiSearchSimple

I've been involved with the discussions on the freedesktop.org list.

> In general I think we should look at getting a dbus system in place
> soon, 

I would like to see this done as an adapter, using the new dbus-sharp 
managed API.

> as it seems that the major sticking point with the larger
> distros/projects is the dependence of a core technology (like
> gtkfilechooser) having to load a beagle lib.

I really haven't seen this as a major sticking point at all.  For 
gtkfilechooser, the problem was a dependency loop between libbeagle and 
GTK+.  Simply moving libbeagle out of the beagle tarball into its own 
release would fix this; right now we have to do nasty dlopen() tricks in 
the search backend.

Joe