Re: [Tracker] runtime checking for tracker availability

["Samuel Cormier-Iijima" <sciyoshi gmail com>]

On 10/20/06, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
> 2006/10/20, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>:
> > Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > > Is there an easy *clean* way to check if tracker is installed at
> > > runtime? I thinking here namely on the deskbar handler which needs to do
> > > this.
> > >
> > > I have been playing around with some dbus stuff. I need a call to check
> > > whether tracker is available without starting it (via dbus activation)!
> > >
> > > dbus.bus.ListActivatableNames was added in dbus 0.91.0 but edgy only has
> > > 0.70.0...
> >
> > you could check for the tracker service file in usr/dbus-1/services
>
> Yeah, but for that I'd need the path where dbus service files are
> installed... Digging around I hva not been able to device a runtime way of
> doing this.

I think this was discussed earlier on the list; I can get the services dir with
pkg-config --variable=session_bus_services_dir dbus-1
but apparently it didn't work for other people (I'm running latest Ubuntu Edgy)

> Cheers,
> Mikkel
>
>
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