Re: org.gnome.Application DBus Interface

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 19:00 +0200, Nicolas Trangez wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:05 +0100, Alex Jones wrote:
> > media_player_proxy = dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name (connection,
> > 	"org.gnome.Rhythmbox",
> >         "/org/gnome/Rhythmbox,
> > 	"org.gnome.MediaPlayer"); // Any random interface here
> > 
> > error = NULL;
> > dbus_g_proxy_call (proxy, "Pause", &error, G_TYPE_INVALID, G_TYPE_INVALID);
> Remains the issue: "I want to pause the currently playing music player.
> Now I wonder what it's object path is."
> You can hardly keep a list of all known object paths (RB, Totem,
> Banshee, whatever) in your application-which-wants-to-pause-the-player.
> 
> Nicolas

We are getting hideously off topic, but this is something that can be
stored in GConf as a "preferred media player" key:

service_name = "org.gnome.Rhythmbox"
object_path = "/org/gnome/Rhythmbox"

Sorted.