kdesupport/polkit-qt question

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday 11 March 2009, Dario Freddi wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> We surely would have liked to do as you said. Unfortunately, messing with
> those exact methods is unavoidable, since we need to pass PolicyKit a
> standard DBusMessage object, and there seems to be no way to get it from a
> QDBusMessage. If you dive deeper in the code, you'll see that
> methods/objects are used just to pass some DBusMessages to PolicyKit.

This is what I meant. You should be using the specified D-Bus interface 
instead.

After all this is the very purpose of D-Bus, to be able to specify interfaces 
without forcing certain implementations.

It helps to take a step back and have a look at it from a different angle.
Just assume you would not be using C or C++, e.g. Java or C#, then you would 
still have access to any D-Bus interface through the respective D-Bus 
implementation but not have access to libdbus API (especially since those 
D-Bus bindings are not using it internally either).

Which shows quite nicely that any kind of D-Bus related services that want to 
be infrastructure for Free Software desktop systems will have their D-Bus 
interfaces as the official API.

For example see HAL, NetworkManager, etc.

Cheers,
Kevin

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