[Decibel] Decibel and the Telepathy Spec - into the future...

[George Goldberg]

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 8:01 AM, Tobias Hunger
<tobias.hunger at basyskom.de> wrote:
> Am Tuesday 25 November 2008 01:00:17 schrieb George Goldberg:
>> It might also be an idea to implement the now stable (I think)
>> AccountManager API from the telepathy SPEC alongside the existing API
>> that decibel uses.
>
> The reason why I do not think this is a good idea is the following: When
> decibel implements the Telepathy AccountManager API (which is worse than ours
> IMHO), then we need to use the Telepathy AccountManager bus names, too. This
> gets us into a situation where Telepathy and Decibel compete on resources
> (names on the D-Bus) and depending on who "wins" the user will get one set of
> accounts or another. This seems highly undesirable to me.

Good point. This is definitely undesirable.

/me heads off to investigate whether there is an already-existing
solution to this.


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George Goldberg