Re: [Tracker] trackerd patch to alert the user that the dbus connection is unavailable

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Saleem Abdulrasool wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Attached is a patch that displays a dialog when the dbus session bus is
> not available, or if trackerd is unable to connect to it.  I think that
> this is useful, as otherwise, trackerd silently fails to start.
>
> In order to display the dialog, there is a dependency on GTK+, but it
> does NOT require any GNOME specific libraries.
>
> As for the issue of running trackerd when no UI is available, it should
> be a non-issue.  If there is no UI available, it will fall back to the
> console only version.  It will however, still fail if no dbus session
> bus is available.
>
> Suggestions to improve this are welcome.

thanks but...

I would prefer an applet on the panel which runs a status check (I can 
add a dbus method for this) on trackerd and report errors that way.

trackerd has a qt client and I dont want to link GTK (or QT) into the daemon

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