RFC: DBUS & KDE 4

[Harri Porten]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004, Lubos Lunak wrote:

>  DBUS seems to have a CUSTOM data type. Wouldn't it be sufficient to dump the
> QDataStream-created data used by DCOP as one binary object into the custom
> data type, or read it back using QDataStream? The apps shouldn't see any
> difference.

Yes. But I think this should only be used for compatibility in a
transition period. In the long run one should agree on well defined
complex types with other projects for interoperability (via
freedesktop.org). Example for this reasoning: a tool from the X camp might
want to tell kdesktop to have a green background color. Speaking
proprietary binary protocols doesn't help with integration.

Harri.