[Kde-hardware-devel] cagibi questions

[Kevin Krammer]

On Saturday, 2010-07-31, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

> > After installing I browsed to network:/ in dolphin but it doesn't show
> > anything, uPNP is turned on in my router but I don't know enough about
> > uPNP to know if anything should be appearing in network:/.  What
> > should I look out for?
> 
> You need to restart kded, because the kded-module used by the network:/
> kio- slave only tries to connect to the cagibi daemon on start. It doesn't
> detect that cagibi service got installed.
> Also does not yet try to reconnect if cagibid disappears (well, should not
> disappear :), never crashed, for me).
> 
> Any idea how one can detect that a D-Bus service is installed which only
> gets activated trough the D-Bus call and the service file? Does D-Bus also
> signal a new available service, started on demand?

D-Bus only signals for things that run, e.g. a new service registering on 
startup.

What you can do is either perform the call to Cagibi anyway and handle the 
error in case it isn't running and couldnt be started, or you check and watch 
the directories where th .service files are stored.

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