GLib/GObject+C as the lingua franca?

[nf2]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hi Norbert,
>
> On Wednesday 30 July 2008, nf2 wrote:
> ...
>   
>> Will the refcounter be inside QObject or inside the pointer-holding class?
>>
>> Because in the latter case you would loose the refcount as soon as you
>> just pass the pointer to a function or try to cast the pointer:
>>
>> QRefCountedPointer<A> a = new A();
>>
>> call_some_function(a.p);
>>
>> or
>>
>> QRefCountedPointer<B> = dynamic_cast<B*> a.p;
>>     
>
> I didn't really follow the thread and actually I don't know whether I like 
> what you want to do or not.
>   

I'm not that sure whether what i'm proposing is good or bad either. 
Maybe it's good to keep things separate and just have fd.o standards on 
file-formats or D-Bus interfaces. Maybe that's not sufficient. Should 
there be a kind or "winapi" for the freedesktop platform? Dunno. It's 
still exciting trying to find out how things could fit together.

> But, I find it really cool that you are very persistently working on these 
> things and actually also get results :-)
>   

I'm not sure about the results ;-). I tried lot's of things (vio, 
libfusi, xdg-vfs) that never got anywhere. Why did i pick the VFS as my 
favorite topic? Maybe because i think it's symptomatic for the problems 
of the free desktops. Actually my first "contact" with this stuff were 
those annoying "unmount - device is busy" messages and i wanted to find 
out why this sucks so much...

Years ago i tried to get the GLib main loop into Qt by writing a really 
terrible prototype. I don't know whether this has inspired TT, or if 
they already planned to do this earlier. What i learned is that one 
actually has to write code when trying to convince people. Although my 
C++ and C is still quite clumsy...

> Alex
>
> P.S. will you be at Akademy ?
>   

I'd love to. But unfortunately i don't have time this year.

Cheers,
Norbert