Re: [Fwd: RFP: Keyboard Configuration Registry over dbus]

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 09:10 +0100, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> Hello Rodrigo,
> 
> > and how will the DBUS interface look like? That is, will it send over
> > the bus the whole XML file?
> Well, this is a very good question. Let me explain.
> There are two relatively separate tasks, as far as keyboard concerned:
> - configuration (gnome-keyboard-properties capplet)
> - indication (gnome-keyboard-indicator applet and any other app which
> would need to indicate the current status)
> 
> For the configuration purposes, we really need entire XML - that is
> why I am going to leave g-k-p as it is - loading XML and working with
> it locally. g-k-p lifetime is short, people run it very unfrequently,
> so I do not think that making dbus interface very complex would be
> adjusted by the potential benefits.
> 
> But for the indication purposes, you need only several strings - the
> descriptions of the currently loaded layouts. So at this point, I plan
> only one function, returning 4 arrays of strings (short/long
> descriptions or layouts/variants). This should be enough for the
> applet and screensaver and any other indication purposes.
> 
> Does this make sense to you?
> 
well, I'm still not sure, Seb (or any other), any comment?

> > This way, I don't think we'll use more RAM than what we use now.
> Well, g-s-d will keep the parsed XML in memory - which will definitely
> take some RAM.
> 
right
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>