dbus+Service name+error

[Josef Spillner]

Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 18:06 schrieb Laurent Montel:
> But when it's personal application.
> For example kalarm has personal web site.
> I don't know if he wants to move it on kde.org.
> Is it not possible to put by default "org.kde." and allow to force specific
> service name if guy wants to use own specific service name ?

This seems to be less an issue of personal homepages and more of having a 
decent policy of interfaces and namespaces in KDE. I don't see a 1:1 
relationship between web sites and namespaces in this case. As we have many 
other occurrences of similar problems (especially with XML files which are 
included with KDE), I'd say that we should have some guidelines on how 
to "make up" namespaces in a way which is forward-compatible as much as 
possible.

One suggestion (to make a start) would be to use namespaces.kde.org/stable/... 
for XML which could be used as org.kde.namespaces.foo for d-bus if this 
really needs to be in dotted-string notation.
Maybe we could also look at URNs. Independent of the result, any guidelines is 
certainly better than no guidelines, which is the present situation.

The 'stable' part already hints at guaranteeing a certain compatibility across 
releases should be part of the guidelines.

Parsing appinfo for the dbus interface is insane. It reverts 
design-by-contract to design-by-code.

Josef