D-BUS interfaces and whatnot (Re: KDE/kdebase/konqueror/settings/performance)

[Thiago Macieira]

Richard Dale wrote:
>Yes, that looks good. It expects:
>dbus <service> <path> <interface> <member> arg(s)

No, it expects:
dbus <service> <path> <interface>.<member> arg(s)

or

dbus <service> <path> <member> arg(s)

>What naming conventions should it be using. Should the
> q_classinfo/Q_CLASSINFO specifiy 'org.kde.<appname>.MyWidget' ? 

If the interface you're exporting is local to your application, yes, 
please prefix your interface name with the application's name.

If it's a global KDE interface (i.e., something that we as KDE tell the 
world they can use, including ourselves), then it should be in org.kde.

Normally, you keep lowercased the domain part, but you uppercase that 
which is not part of the domain. So, for instance, 
org.kde.kopete.InstantMessenger is ok because kopete.kde.org exists. For 
applications without domain, we can safely pretend that the domain exists 
in kde.org.

For applications that have their own domain, it's their choice. For 
instance, amaroK could choose to use org.amarok instead of 
org.kde.amarok. KOffice applications will use org.koffice.appname.

> Am I supposed to call registerObject() with a "/" or "/MyWidget"
> or "/<appname>/MyWidget" path? I can't seem to quite get a grip on it.

You choose.

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