Review Request 129295: do not needlessly register kblocks on the session bus

[Harald Sitter]

> On Oct. 31, 2016, 3:26 p.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > I disagree, our apps expose the actions via dbus as they used to do via dcop, this is useful.
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     It's potentially useful. As soon as applications need to ask for permission to communicate, it becomes automatically something less natural.
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> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     Correct, but those people that use this software on less strict environments should not be forced to lose functionality because the more strict environment exists
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> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     Maybe then it's something that should come from the platform (i.e. QPA/QPT) instead of the application itself then?
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> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     Yes, QPA/QPT/KDBusAddons/somewhere, is where i think that the "i am running on a restricted platform so let's not explode and just continue with less capabilities" decision should happen, maybe ideally/optionally giving the user a message of what he is missing (that's harder though)

I don't see how it is useful.


- Harald


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On Oct. 31, 2016, 11:40 a.m., Harald Sitter wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 31, 2016, 11:40 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Games and Aleix Pol Gonzalez.
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> Repository: kblocks
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> Description
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> kblocks provides no service, so it having startuptype multi is not
> beneficial to anyone (multi means ktoolinvocation will wait for
> registration before considering the service started).
> without multi startup there is no reason to use dbusaddons at all as there
> is no reason to register on dbus as kblocks has no actual dbus API 3rd
> parties should use. so, remove all of dbus.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt d90453d8da079aeaba13b6a129cccb48b56a5ec6 
>   main.cpp 349e22e0b4beb384e2fdd78d20abdd948d5ef9e9 
>   org.kde.kblocks.desktop 042cb40afdd2474eafb4c9284dcaa16fdf33de4b 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129295/diff/
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> Testing
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> builds, doesn't use dbus anymore, plasma and krunner can still start it without problems
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> Thanks,
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> Harald Sitter
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