Re: [Muine] QuitEvent for plugins and dbus (PATCH)

[Javier Ruiz Hidalgo <javier ruizhidalgo gmail com>]

Perfect then!! I thought this might have been implemented by dbus (as
it's a very useful signal than all server/clients may use) but
couldn't find it. Thanks!


later,


On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 02:42:50 -0700, Brian Nickel <brian nickel gmail com> wrote:
> > Well, I really think it's quite useful. The way I see it now is that
> > you create an external dbus aware program and hook into song and state
> > change signals. But if the user closes muine then the external dbus
> > app doesn't gets notified and it  waits forever for a song (or state)
> > change event...
> 
> You could watch for a org.freedesktop.DBus.ServiceOwnerChanged signal.
> When muine starts, we get:
> 
> signal interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=ServiceOwnerChanged;
> sender=org.freedesktop.DBus
> string:org.gnome.Muine
> string:
> string::NUM.NUM
> 
> And when muine quits, we get:
> 
> signal interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=ServiceOwnerChanged;
> sender=org.freedesktop.DBus
> string:org.gnome.Muine
> string::NUM.NUM
> string:
> 
> This is internal and will fire all the time, regardless of whether
> muine is killed or shut down correctly. If muine is killed and a
> program is waiting for a quit signal, it will wait indefinitely. With
> this method, we know for sure that we're done and can move on.
> 


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Javier Ruiz Hidalgo <javier ruizhidalgo gmail com>