KDEREVIEW: nowplaying dataengine and applet for plasma

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Ian Monroe wrote:

> I find MPRIS to be a fine standard, it has the methods it needs to get
> the job done. I'm hardly a DBus expert, where I've heard most of the
> criticism coming from it seems. So for the folks criticizing it, just
> join the MPRIS mailing list[*] and voice your concerns and suggestion.
> Because in about 6 months to a year (with releases from Amarok,
> VideoLAN and others), it is going to be the defacto standard.

I tried that almost a year ago, doesn't seem to work.

It's a bit hard to understand why there is so much resistance to appropriately 
group the methods into three interface. Anyone using a code generator like 
qdbusxml2cpp will need to do a lot of dummy method implementations when all 
objects have the same interface but only care about a few methods.

It also messes up the discoverability. Any user using tools like qdbus will 
see all methods on each node and probably wonder why certain methods return a 
D-Bus error when being called.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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