Making dbus optional in Calligra

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 8 February 2012 13:30, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek <staniek at kde.org> wrote:
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>> On 8 February 2012 11:50, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org>
>> wrote:
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>> > On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> And yes, well, of course there are platform-local ways of ipc, on
>> >> windows
>> >> and android that we might want to use instead of dbus, if there is
>> >> demand
>> >> for it.
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>> > I talked about this with Holger Schöder at FOSDEM.
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>> What's you opinion - where is QtMobility in this which has the same
>> purpose?
>> If possible - we sure do not want to have this as KDE-only thing.
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> Are you talking about the Publish/subscribe API? He did not mention
> anything.

This but also the service framework wraps dbus services:
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtmobility/qtserviceframework.htm
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtmobility-1.2/service-frameworks.html

+it's ported
http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtmobility-1.2/index.html#platform-compatibility

> The advantage of libdbusfat would be applications would not need any change
> and they would still be able to use DBus, which at the moment is important
> for cross-desktop interoperability. On Unix platforms, applications would
> link to libdbus and talk to dbus-daemon. On Windows, Android, etc,
> applications would link to libdbusfat and talk to the native IPC system.
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> Of course the QtMobility Publish/Subscribe API could also implement a DBus
> layer, but it would serve a different purpose (the QtMobility
> publish/subscribe mechanism is not available from glib/gtk/EFL/etc AFAIK).

But I am talking about Qt apps.  I am here not to make gtk/EFL work
(this is work of particular platform developers if they care) but to
make my apps integrated without any bloat :)

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