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

["Sergey Udaltsov" <sergey udaltsov gmail com>]

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?

> this is probably the best option. We already are using bonobo for the
> activation, so we could replace that with DBUS and add the needed
> interface.
OK, I don't mind.

> 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.

Cheers,

Sergey