Re: org.gnome.Application DBus Interface

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

Hi

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 23:50 +0300, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 8/13/07, Alex Jones <alex weej com> wrote:
> > > InvokeAction (action_name, arguments)
> > > That would be very useful (as we tried to do on the CORBA days) for
> > > automation
> >
> > Actually what is a better solution here is to use a different interface,
> > such as the common media player interface described here:
> 
> I completely agree.
> 
> What do you think of having a bunch of properties exported as well?
> This is based on what GLib is able to give.
> 
>       <property name="Prgname" type="s" access="read" />
>       <property name="Version" type="s" access="read" />
>       <property name="ApplicationName" type="s" access="read" />
> <?      <property name="CurrentTime" type="s" access="read" /> <!--
> iso8601 --> ?>

What do these properties represent and how could they be useful?

> And quit?
>      <method name="Quit" />

I did originally have a Shutdown method, but I was unable to come up
with any real use cases for it. If you can think of any I'd quite like
to hear them!

Cheers