Re: Plans for 2.20

["William Jon McCann" <mccann jhu edu>]

Hi,

On 3/7/07, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 17:16 +0000, Sergey Udaltsov wrote:
> > Rodrigo,
> >
> > > we already do dbus interaction, so it shouldn't add performance
> > > penalties at all.
> > Ghm, so far IIRC dbus interaction was minimal - just initial "kick" of
> > the g-s-d from the session manager - and one request from the keyboard
> > indicator (if present). Your proposal to move all interaction between
> > g-s-d and its modules onto DBus street (did I understand you right?)
> > would put slightly heavier traffic on it, wouldn't it?
> >
> yes, you understood wrong :) the communication between g-s-d and its
> modules would be done in-process, since g-s-d would load the
> GnomeSettingsModule implementation from .so (or, for the already
> included in g-s-d, they could even be compiled in)
>
> The D-Bus communication is for 3rd party apps, like, for instance, a
> media player that wants to disable the screensaver. That app would just
> need to call GnomeSettingsDaemon.disableModule ("screensaver")

Why?  We have an Inhibit API for that.  Furthermore, disabling is
certainly not what you want to do...  What are you trying to do?

Jon